Name: Apple Tart with Quince
Ingredients: ½ cup bright firm red-currant jelly; ½ cup apple jelly; ½ cup apricot jam; ½ cup greengage jam; 2 dozen tartlet shells

Why it works: Apple and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 777 recipes. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

Apple Tart with Quince

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Bake the tartlet shells until light in color.
Insert narrow strips of red-currant or apple jelly between each piece of almond.
Place a piece of apricot or greengage jam in the center of each tartlet.

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.

Apple + apricottop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together777 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).
Currant + appletop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,918 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).
Currant + apricottop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together188 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).