Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓
Petits Brioche Au Parmesan
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the baba cake mixture and let it rise until light.
Soak the gelatine in a pint of cold water.
Whip the cream until firm and set aside.
In a saucepan, combine the noyeau and powdered sugar.
Boil the water, strain the gelatine, and stir it into the boiling water until dissolved.
Pour the gelatine mixture over the noyeau and sugar, warm slightly, then mix in the whipped cream.
Fill the Charlotte moulds with the mixture lined with Genoise cake.
Melt the jelly in a clean saucepan and whisk until creamy.
Pour the jelly into the bottom of two pint moulds and chill on ice.
Once the Charlottes are set, turn them out onto dishes and place the jelly tops on each.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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