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Charlotte Glacee

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Biscuit and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 388 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Charlotte Glacee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Completely line the bottom and sides of a charlotte mold with ladyfinger biscuits.

  2. In a bowl, combine the candied fruits, wash, and cut them into cubes or quarters.

  3. Soak the fruits in kirsch for one hour.

  4. At serving time, spread a layer of fruit ice at the bottom of the mold.

  5. Add a portion of the soaked fruits on top of the ice, then add another layer of ice.

  6. Once the mold is full, invert the charlotte onto a plate covered with a towel.

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. Biscuit + almondtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together388 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Apricot + quincetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Almond + apricottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Almond + quincetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together69 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Almond + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

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

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

Swap the quince

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (biscuit, almond, apricot, cherry brandy, orange):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Quincethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against biscuit, almond, apricot, cherry brandy, orange. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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