Name: Pine Apple and Victoeia Eocks
Ingredients: cream of tartar; red food coloring; raspberry flavoring; yellow food coloring; essence of pineapple; acid (like citric acid)

Why it works: Raspberry and pineapple work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 195 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Pine Apple and Victoeia Eocks

Ingredients

Directions

Boil sugar with cream of tartar until it reaches the crack stage.
Pour the boiling sugar onto a slab.
Color half of the sugar red and pull the other half over a hook.
Flavor the pulled sugar with raspberry.
Case the pulled sugar with the red sugar.
For pineapple rock, color the entire boiling sugar yellow.
Pull half of the yellow sugar over the hook and case it with clear sugar.
Flavor with essence of pineapple and a little acid.

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.

Raspberry + pineappletop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together195 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).
Cream + raspberrytop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,332 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Cream + pineappletop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,574 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).