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Why it works: Orange and chocolate work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 928 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells buttery, creamy. The science ↓

Orange

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bake the Genoese cake in 5-inch rings.

  2. Split the cake and sandwich it together.

  3. Mask the cake with icing as described in recipe No. 26.

  4. Cut a small disc of orange-peel using a round cutter, 1 inch in diameter.

  5. Cut two oval-shaped pieces of orange-peel using an oval cutter, 1.5 inches long and 1 inch broad.

  6. Divide the oval pieces equally in two lengthwise and cut two narrow strips from the peel.

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. Orange + chocolatetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together928 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

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

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