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Fennel Slices Another Way

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Anise and fennel share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 47 recipes. Both carry cis-anethole, which smells anise. The science ↓

Fennel Slices Another Way

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine pounded sugar, egg yolks, lemon peel, chopped citron, anise seed, fennel, and lemon juice.

  2. Beat the mixture until well combined.

  3. Whip the egg whites into froth and gently fold them into the yolk mixture.

  4. Gradually add the fine flour, mixing until smooth.

  5. Follow the baking instructions from the previous recipe.

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. Anise + fenneltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: cis-anethole (anise).

  2. Lemon + fenneltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Lemon + anisetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Anise + flourtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together270 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Fennel + flourtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together455 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, egg, anise, fennel, flour):

  1. Raisinfits about as well
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Vanillafits less well
  4. Figfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, anise, fennel, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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