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Almond Cheesecakes

A baked almond-based cheesecake made with blanched almonds, sugar, egg yolks, rose water, and wrapped in puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and rose are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,465 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Almond Cheesecakes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Let the blanched almonds cool, then pound them in rose water using a mortar.

  2. In a bowl, combine the pounded almonds, sugar, and egg yolks.

  3. Beat the mixture until it is very light.

Bake

  1. Bake the mixture in rich puff pastry until golden.

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. Almond + rosetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,465 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Almond + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,679 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Sugar + rosetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,584 recipes

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

  5. Almond + eggtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Blanched sweet almonds
Provide the main body of the filling once pounded into a paste.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the filling brown when baked.
Egg yolks
Bind the almond paste and add richness and set to the filling.
Rich puff pastry
Forms the crust that holds the filling and bakes to a golden finish.

The step that matters

Beating the mixture until very light. Beating incorporates air into the egg yolks and sugar, giving the filling lightness. Under-beating leaves it dense, while over-working can make it lose structure as it bakes.

“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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