Name: Cocoanut Drinks
Ingredients: 1 cup coconut milk; 1 cup water or sweet milk; 2 tablespoons finely ground blanched peanuts; lemon juice (if using fresh coconut); water (as needed)

Why it works: Coconut and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 433 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Cocoanut Drinks

Ingredients

1 cup coconut milk
1 cup water or sweet milk
2 tablespoons finely ground blanched peanuts
lemon juice (if using fresh coconut)
water (as needed)

Directions

Prepare

Dilute the coconut milk with an equal quantity of water or sweet milk.
Add the finely ground blanched peanuts and set aside for several hours or overnight.
In the morning, strain the mixture well.

Use fresh coconut

If using fresh coconut, grate it finely and cover with lemon juice, then set aside for several hours.
Mash the coconut mixture and add the desired quantity of water, straining several times.

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.

Coconut + peanuttop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together433 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Coconut + milktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,648 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Coconut + lemontop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,233 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Milk + peanuttop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,048 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,053 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).