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Chocolate Bavarian Cream

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Chocolate and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,020 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Chocolate Bavarian Cream

Oven, in the book's wordsA brisk oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak 2 tablespoons of sago in ½ cup of water for 3 hours.

  2. Pour off the water and boil the sago in 1 pint of any acid fruit juice until cooked.

  3. Pour the mixture into a mold and let it cool.

  4. Once cold, turn out the cream and serve with custard or 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.

  1. Chocolate + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

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