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Chocolate Creams

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and nuts work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 440 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Chocolate Creams

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mould the center cream in cornstarch using your desired flavor.

  2. Color the rose, strawberry, and wintergreen a delicate pink, and the lemon a deep yellow; leave vanilla uncolored.

  3. Blow off the excess cornstarch after moulding.

  4. Coat the centres with chocolate as per the chocolate coating instructions.

  5. If using nuts, shape the center flat, place the nut on top before the chocolate sets, and press gently.

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.

Explore the science

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. Chocolate + nutstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together440 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Rose + chocolatetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together149 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Rose + nutstop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the nuts

The recipe marks nuts as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rose, chocolate):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Pistachiofits better
  3. Walnutfits about as well
  4. Nutsthe original

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

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