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Rings and Pretzels

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,514 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Rings and Pretzels

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Roll the dough and incorporate raisins, cinnamon sugar, chopped nuts, or citrus peels.

  2. Roll out the dough into a sheet about 1 inch thick and 10 to 12 inches wide.

  3. Cut strips 1½ inches wide and twist each strip into a rope shape.

  4. Place the twisted strips on pans in ring or pretzel shapes.

  5. Proof the shapes, then egg-wash them before baking.

  6. Bake at 400°F (200°C) until golden.

  7. Frost with water icing when done, and sprinkle with chopped almonds or nuts if desired.

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. Cinnamon + almondtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Raisin + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Cinnamon + orangetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (raisin, cinnamon, sugar, lemon, orange, butter, almond):

  1. Pistachiofits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Brazil nutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against raisin, cinnamon, sugar, lemon, orange, butter, almond. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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