Name: Pistachio and Apple Pudding a LA Ceres
Ingredients: 20 pippin apples; ½ pound apricot jam; 4 ounces blanched pistachios

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 ↓

Pistachio and Apple Pudding a LA Ceres

Ingredients

20 pippin apples
½ pound apricot jam
4 ounces blanched pistachios

Directions

Prepare the pudding as described in recipe No. C9 using the pippin apples.
Add the apricot jam and blanched pistachios to the mixture.
Once the pudding is cooked, turn it out onto a serving dish.
Spread apricot jam over the top and sprinkle with chopped pistachios.

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).
Apricot + pistachiotop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together188 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Apple + pistachiotop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together83 recipes

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