Name: Tutti-Frutti
Ingredients: glace cherries; lime; apple; nuts

Why it works: Lime and apple work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 231 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Tutti-Frutti

Ingredients

glace cherries
lime
apple
nuts

Directions

Prepare the tutti-frutti mixture by combining the above ingredients.
Add glace cherries, lime, apple, and nuts cut into bits when the mixture is almost frozen.

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.

Lime + appletop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together231 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Lime + nutstop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Apple + nutstop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together237 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).