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Ornamental Caramel Baskets, Etc

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Ornamental Caramel Baskets, Etc

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. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Line a high round mold with pastafrolle paste and fill it with bran to maintain its shape while baking.

  3. Bake until dry and slightly baked, then remove from the mold.

  4. Attach the cylindrical shape to a flat circular base using royal icing.

  5. Stick clusters of filberts in circular rows around the sides, ensuring the base angles fit together.

  6. Insert pointed lozenges of green angelica between each cluster.

  7. Decorate the top and base with caramel fruit or sugar.

  8. Fill the basket with flavored whipped cream and whole strawberries, or fruit water ices, or any kind of cream ice.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Filbert + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  3. Angelica + creamtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together237 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  4. Angelica + sugartop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together487 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Filbert + sugartop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together143 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

Swap the angelica

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (filbert, sugar, cream):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Angelicathe original

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

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