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Salpicon of Fruits

A chilled fruit salad of diced oranges, bananas, grapes, pineapple, sweetened with sugar and flavored with wine or citrus juices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Banana and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 733 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Salpicon of Fruits

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix together the orange pulp, diced bananas, halved grapes, and grated pineapple lightly.

  2. Add sugar and a little wine or lemon and orange juice to taste.

  3. Serve in glasses or halved oranges with the pulp removed.

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. Banana + pineappletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Grape + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

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

  4. Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Orange + grapetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Orange pulp
Provides the main citrus base and bright, juicy body to the fruit mix.
Bananas
Adds soft, creamy texture that holds the mixed fruit together.
Grapes
Contributes juicy bursts and a firm bite against the softer fruits.
Grated pineapple
Adds tangy sweetness and juiciness to the fruit mixture.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and balances the acidity of the citrus and pineapple.

The step that matters

Mix lightly. Fruit this soft bruises and breaks down easily when stirred hard. Gentle folding keeps the pieces intact, so the salpicon looks fresh and keeps its texture.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, grape, pineapple, sugar, wine):

  1. Applefits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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