Name: Strawberry Cream
Ingredients: fresh strawberries or strawberry preserve; thick whipped cream; sifted sugar; sweet finger biscuits

Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Strawberry Cream

Ingredients

fresh strawberries or strawberry preserve
thick whipped cream
sifted sugar
sweet finger biscuits

Directions

Place fresh strawberries or strawberry preserve on a dish.
Add thick whipped cream on top.
If using fresh strawberries, sweeten with sifted sugar.
Garnish with sweet finger biscuits.

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.

Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Strawberry + creamtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,525 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Cream + biscuittop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,235 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
Strawberry + biscuittop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together102 recipes

Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).
Sugar + biscuittop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,874 recipes

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