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Cardamom Comfits

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cardamom and syrup work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cardamom Comfits

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Preheat your oven to 300°F (150°C).

  2. Place the cardamom pods in the oven to dry the skins until they break.

  3. Remove the seeds from the dried cardamom pods.

  4. In a large pan, combine the cardamom seeds with gum, starch, and syrup.

  5. Mix the ingredients together using your hands.

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. Cardamom + syruptop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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