Why it works: Guava and coconut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓
Bermuda Witches
Ingredients
Directions
Slice the cake into pieces no thicker than ⅙ inch and remove the brown edges.
Spread half of the cake slices with Guava jelly or your choice of jelly.
Sprinkle grated coconut evenly over the jelly.
Press the remaining cake slices on top to form a sandwich.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Guava + coconuttop 4% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together27 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
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