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Uncooked Spiced Chocolate Creams

A no-bake chocolate truffle made with egg white, sugar, spices, and chocolate coating.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Uncooked Spiced Chocolate Creams

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, combine the egg white and water.

  2. Stir in enough confectioner's sugar to create a stiff mixture.

  3. Add grated chocolate and ground spices to the mixture.

Shape and coat

  1. With slightly buttered or wet hands, mold the mixture into small balls.

  2. Roll the balls in melted chocolate to coat.

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. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Clove + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Cinnamon + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Clove + macetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  5. Allspice + macetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg white
Binds the mixture and adds structure as it is combined with sugar.
Confectioner's sugar
Thickens the liquid into a stiff mixture that holds its shape.
Grated chocolate
Adds flavor and body to the filling.
Chocolate
Forms a melted outer coating that adds sweetness and a smooth finish.

The step that matters

Stiffening the mixture with confectioner's sugar. Sugar must be added gradually until the mixture is stiff enough to hold a shape. Too little leaves the balls soft and hard to roll, while too much makes them dry and crumbly.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, chocolate, cinnamon, clove, allspice, butter):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cardamomfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, chocolate, cinnamon, clove, allspice, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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