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Macedoine of Fruit

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and plum match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 163 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Macedoine of Fruit

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Arrange the seasonal fruit on a serving dish, slicing larger fruits as needed.

  2. Add whole cherries, raspberries, strawberries, and grapes.

  3. Sprinkle the fruit generously with white sugar and let it sit for 12 to 15 hours.

  4. Serve as is, or add a teaspoon of maraschino and cream if desired.

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 + plumtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Peach + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Plum + bananatop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Plum + grapetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together238 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Banana + grapetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, plum, banana, sugar, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, plum, banana, sugar, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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