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Macedoine of Whole Fruits

A fruit salad of peaches and apricots soaked in a sweet liqueur syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 342 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Macedoine of Whole Fruits

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Place all kinds of fruit into a china bowl.

  2. Make a syrup by heating sugar and water until dissolved.

Macerate and serve

  1. Add the liqueur or brandy to the hot syrup and pour it over the fruits.

  2. Allow the mixture to cool.

  3. Optionally, mix ice at the bottom 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.

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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. Peach + apricottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together342 recipes

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

  2. Apricot + brandytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together513 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Peach + brandytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together339 recipes

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

  4. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

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

  5. Apricot + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,630 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mixed fruits
Provide the main body, flavour and colour of the dish.
Sugar
Sweetens the syrup and helps draw out the fruit's flavour.
Liqueur or brandy
Adds aroma and a boozy flavour to the syrup.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apricot, sugar, brandy):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachthe original
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Plumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against apricot, sugar, brandy. 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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