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Chaud-froid De Fruits

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and pear match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 649 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

Chaud-froid De Fruits

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a border of clear jelly in a mold.

  2. Garnish the jelly with pieces of green gages, apricot, and pineapple.

  3. In the center, layer slices of apple and pear, congealed in blanc-manger.

  4. Decorate the surface with prunes cut to imitate profiles and pear slices trimmed to look like cocks-combs.

  5. Make maraschino jelly to fill the mold and garnish with stripes of almonds and pieces of greengage.

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. Apple + peartop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together649 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Apricot + peartop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Apricot + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  4. Pineapple + peartop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Apricot + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together377 recipes

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

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

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apricot, pineapple, apple, pear):

  1. Chestnutfits about as well
  2. Hazelnutfits about as well
  3. Almondthe original
  4. Pistachiofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against apricot, pineapple, apple, pear. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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