Name: Clear Jelly
Ingredients: cherries; pineapples; limes; gelatine; whipped cream

Why it works: Pineapple and lime 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 ↓

Clear Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Cut the fruit into suitable pieces and arrange them in your desired mold.
Sprinkle a little gelatine over the fruit to hold it in place.
Once the gelatine has hardened, pour in the next color of jelly.
If using green jelly, choose a delicate shade to place next, reserving darker crimson for the last layer.
Serve the jelly on a low crystal platter, optionally garnished with whipped cream.

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 + limetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together469 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Pineapple + creamtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,574 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Lime + creamtop 31% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together740 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).