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A Wafer Basket

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 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 ↓

A Wafer Basket

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil sugar until it reaches barley sugar consistency.

  2. Lay four yellow wafers flat on a dish in a diamond shape, using sugar to make them stick.

  3. Add four red wafers on top, sticking them with sugar.

  4. Repeat with four more yellow and four more red wafers.

  5. Place ratifeas against the ends of the wafers to hide the joins and decorate with flowers.

  6. Fill the basket with custard, cakes soaked in wine, and whipped cream, or meringues, French pastry, or sweetmeats.

  7. For a change, you may stick the wafers on their ends.

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. Wine + creamtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Sugar + winetop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together9,581 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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