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Greengage Biscuits

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Spinach and angelica share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Greengage Biscuits

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the biscuits in the same manner as peach biscuits, keeping them the size and shape of plums.

  2. Stick the two halves together with greengage jam.

  3. Cover the biscuits entirely with greengage jam.

  4. Hold them on a silver fork and dip them in transparent icing colored with spinach green.

  5. Once dried, insert a thin twig of green angelica to form the stalks and add a light dusting of sugar for bloom.

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. Spinach + angelicatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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