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Orange and Strawberry Charlotte

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and strawberry work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 726 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Orange and Strawberry Charlotte

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the peach charlotte recipe as a base.

  2. For the orange version, mix 1 cup of orange juice with 1 cup of sugar.

  3. Line the mold with slices of orange.

  4. Garnish with whipped cream flavored with orange.

  5. For the strawberry version, line the mold with large strawberries and hold them in place with jelly.

  6. Mix 1 cup of strawberry juice with 1 cup of sugar.

  7. Garnish with whipped cream and additional strawberries.

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. Orange + strawberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together726 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Cream + strawberrytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Sugar + strawberrytop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,060 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

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

Orange and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cream, strawberry):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream, strawberry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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