Name: Almond Peach Pie
Ingredients: 1 pie crust (puff or plain); canned peaches (halved, stone side up); chopped almonds; sugar; peach juice

Why it works: Peach and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 466 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Almond Peach Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Line a pie dish with the crust.
Place the peach halves, stone side up, all over the bottom of the crust.
Fill the cavity where the pit was with a spoonful of chopped almonds.
Sprinkle with sugar and pour a little peach juice over the top.
Cover with another crust and bake until golden brown.
Serve with or without cream.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Peach + almondtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Almond + sugartop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,679 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).