Name: Bavarois Moderne Au Moka
Ingredients: 20 grams gelatin (or 2 teaspoons powdered gelatin); 300 grams sugar (or 1½ cups); 400 milliliters water (or 1⅔ cups); 100 milliliters coffee cream (or ⅓ cup); Whipped cream (for finishing)

Why it works: Gelatin and cream match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,628 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Bavarois Moderne Au Moka

Ingredients

20 grams gelatin (or 2 teaspoons powdered gelatin)
300 grams sugar (or 1½ cups)
400 milliliters water (or 1⅔ cups)
100 milliliters coffee cream (or ⅓ cup)
Whipped cream (for finishing)

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Dissolve the gelatin in 400 milliliters of water with 300 grams of sugar over low heat.
Let it cool, then add 100 milliliters of coffee cream.
Line a cylindrical mold with the coffee gelatin mixture.
Prepare a Bavarian cream by replacing vanilla infusion with coffee infusion as per the vanilla Bavarian recipe.
Fold in whipped cream to the Bavarian mixture.
Fill the mold and place it in the freezer for 1.5 hours.
Unmold and serve.

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.

Gelatin + creamtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,628 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Gelatin + sugartop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,778 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Coffee + creamtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,339 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).
Sugar + coffeetop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,344 recipes

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