Name: Pine- Apple Water Ice
Ingredients: 2 glasses of pine syrup; juice of 2 lemons; 1 pint of water

Why it works: Pine and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 480 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pine- Apple Water Ice

Ingredients

2 glasses of pine syrup
juice of 2 lemons
1 pint of water

Directions

Combine the pine syrup, lemon juice, and water in a bowl.
If shaping like a pine, line the mould with paper before adding the mixture.
Cover the mould with ice and salt, and let it sit for 1 hour.
Turn out the ice from the mould.

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.

Pine + lemontop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together480 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Syrup + lemontop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,235 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Pine + syruptop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together33 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).