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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and melon work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 126 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Dessert

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash and prepare the grapes, strawberries, and cherries.

  2. Slice the melon.

  3. Serve the fruits with sugar and cream.

  4. Pair with Port, Sherry, or Madeira.

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.

Explore the science

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.

  1. Grape + melontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together126 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  2. Grape + sherrytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together229 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Melon + sherrytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  5. Cream + sherrytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the melon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (grape, sugar, cream, sherry):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Melonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grape, sugar, cream, sherry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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