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Italian Confectioner

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Apricot and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 342 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Italian Confectioner

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a tin box with shelves and compartments, lined with paper or vine leaves.

  2. Remove the molds from the tub one by one and dip them in lukewarm water.

  3. Immediately dip the molds in cold water to remove any salt.

  4. Open the molds and take out the fruit.

  5. Color the fruit using the prepared colors, ensuring to have light and dark versions of each color.

  6. Place the colored fruit in the ice-lined case until ready to serve.

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. Apricot + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together342 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Apricot + saffrontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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

  4. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the saffron

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Peppermintfits better
  4. Saffronthe original

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

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