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Chilled Water Melon

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Blackberry brandy and musk melon work together. They rank in the top 38% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Chilled Water Melon

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the watermelon into squares.

  2. Imbed the squares in ice until thoroughly chilled.

  3. Pour blackberry brandy over each slice.

  4. Garnish with chilled musk melon marbles.

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. Blackberry brandy + musk melontop 38% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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