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Iced Fruit

A chilled fruit salad with peaches, figs, cherries, pineapple, oranges, wine, and ice, served with creme de menthe and maraschino cherries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and fig share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 45 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Iced Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Cut the peaches, brandied figs, cherries, pineapple, and oranges into even pieces.

  2. Sprinkle ½ cup powdered sugar over the fruit.

  3. Pour 1 pint Tokay wine over the mixture and chill.

Serve

  1. When ready to serve, place a heaping tablespoon of the fruit in a punch cup or champagne glass.

  2. Add 1 tablespoon of orange or lemon ice.

  3. Serve with creme de menthe and maraschino cherries.

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. Peach + figtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Peach + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together168 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Fig + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together100 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Fig + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together407 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Provide the main fruit body and juicy sweetness in the dish.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out juices that mix with the wine.
Tokay wine
Adds liquid and fruity flavour as the fruit soaks while chilling.
Brandied figs
Add concentrated sweetness and boozy, rich fruit flavour.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, fig, syrup, pineapple, sugar, wine):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, fig, syrup, 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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