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Why it works: Pineapple and raspberry work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 195 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Directions

  1. Layer macaroons and lady fingers in a glass dish.

  2. Sprinkle crystallized cherries and pineapple over the layers.

  3. Moisten with sherry wine.

  4. Pour whipped cream over the entire dish.

  5. Alternatively, line a glass dish with slices of sponge cake dipped in sherry.

  6. Cover with raspberry jam.

  7. Pour in cold boiled custard and top with a meringue flavored with lemon juice.

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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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.

  1. Pineapple + raspberrytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together195 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Pineapple + sherrytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together228 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Sherry + raspberrytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together109 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, sherry, wine, cream, raspberry):

  1. Strawberryfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

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

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