Name: Large Strawberries Stuffed with Little Strips of Pine- Fipple
Ingredients: Large strawberries; Pineapple; Coarse granulated sugar; Curly lettuce

Why it works: Pineapple and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 271 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Large Strawberries Stuffed with Little Strips of Pine- Fipple

Ingredients

Large strawberries
Pineapple
Coarse granulated sugar
Curly lettuce

Directions

Prepare

Cut a cavity in the stem end of each large strawberry.
Stuff the cavity with strips of pineapple.
Roll the stuffed strawberries in coarse granulated sugar.

Serve

Place 6 or 7 strawberries on a bed of curly lettuce and serve.

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.

Pineapple + lettucetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together271 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,841 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + lettucetop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,486 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries: Form the juicy, edible shell that holds the pineapple filling.
Pineapple: Adds tangy, sweet tropical flavour and juiciness inside each strawberry.
Coarse granulated sugar: Coats the outside with sweetness and a crunchy, sparkling texture.