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Sliced Oranges

Layered sliced oranges, coconut, and pineapple, sweetened with sugar and finished with wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 651 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sliced Oranges

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Layer the sliced oranges, grated coconut, and sliced pineapple in a dish, sprinkling sugar between each layer.

  2. Pour wine over the layered fruit.

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.

  1. Coconut + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together651 recipes

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

  2. Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Orange + coconuttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together584 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Pineapple + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together325 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Orange + winetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,046 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Oranges
Provide the main juicy, acidic body and fresh citrus flavour of the salad.
Coconut
Adds texture and a creamy, aromatic sweetness to the layers.
Pineapple
Contributes juicy sweetness and tangy acidity that balances the citrus.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out juice, softening the layers.
Wine
Adds aromatic depth and a light acidity that moistens the fruit.

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, pineapple, sugar, wine):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Grapefits better
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, pineapple, sugar, wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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