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Beignets De Pommes

A fried pastry made from blinis batter mixed with sweet apple marmalade, served with red currant jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and red currant work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 111 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Beignets De Pommes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the beignets

  1. Prepare the blinis batter according to the recipe on page 101.

  2. Incorporate sweet apple marmalade into the batter.

  3. Cook the mixture in small blinis pans until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve with a side of red currant jelly or your choice of jam.

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.

Explore the science

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. Apple + red curranttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together111 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet apple marmalade
Adds fruity sweetness and moisture to the batter, with apple flavor throughout the beignets.

“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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