Name: Tutti-Frutti
Ingredients: glace cherries, chopped; limes, chopped; pineapple, chopped; nuts, chopped

Why it works: Lime and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 469 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Tutti-Frutti

Ingredients

glace cherries, chopped
limes, chopped
pineapple, chopped
nuts, chopped

Directions

Prepare the base mixture and freeze it until almost solid.
Add the chopped glace cherries, limes, pineapple, and nuts.
Mix well and return to the freezer until fully frozen.

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.

Lime + pineappletop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together469 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Pineapple + nutstop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together162 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Lime + nutstop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).