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Bonbon Tartlets, Rose-Pink

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and red currant share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 90 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Bonbon Tartlets, Rose-Pink

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Roll out the almond paste very thin on a surface dusted with sifted sugar.

  2. Line small tartlet pans with the rolled almond paste, buttering them lightly first.

  3. Dry the lined tartlet pans in a 350°F (175°C) oven until light fawn in color.

  4. Fill each tartlet with red currant jelly, leaving an eighth of an inch from the edge.

  5. Dry the filled tartlets again for ten minutes in a cool place.

  6. Mask the tartlets with rose-pink transparent icing.

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. Almond + red curranttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

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

  2. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

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

  3. Almond + rosetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,465 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Red currant + rosetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together11 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the red currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, sugar, butter, rose):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Red currantthe original

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

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