Name: Chantilly Basket
Ingredients: macaroons; melted barley sugar; whipped strawberry cream; fresh ripe strawberries

Why it works: Sugar and cream 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 ↓

Chantilly Basket

Ingredients

macaroons
melted barley sugar
whipped strawberry cream
fresh ripe strawberries

Directions

Choose a mould to form the basket.
Dip the edges of the macaroons in melted barley sugar and fasten them together.
Remove the basket from the mould and keep it in a dry place until needed.
Fill the basket with whipped strawberry cream that has been drained on a sieve from the previous day.
Decorate the top with very fine ripe strawberries just before serving.

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.

Sugar + creamtop 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).
Barley + strawberrytop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17 recipes

Shared aroma: 5-ethyl-3-hydroxy-4-methyl-2(5h)-furanone (spice).
Sugar + strawberrytop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,060 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Barley + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together755 recipes

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