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Cannelons

Cannelons are pastry tubes filled with jam, cheese-cake mixture, or fruit puree.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,962 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cannelons

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pastry

  1. Roll out puff pastry to ⅛ inch thick.

  2. Take 12 small canes or smooth cylindrical pieces of wood, about 3 inches long and 1 inch in diameter.

Shape and bake

  1. Butter the canes well and wrap a piece of pastry around each, leaving the ends open and sealing the side neatly.

  2. Bake in the oven until set, then draw out the canes.

Fill and finish

  1. Fill the tubes with your choice of jam, cheese-cake mixture, or fruit puree.

  2. Close the ends with small pieces of pastry, return to the oven to finish baking, and serve piled on top of each other.

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. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Puff pastry
Its layers puff and crisp in the oven, forming the hollow tube walls.
Butter
Greasing the canes lets the pastry release cleanly once baked.
Jam
Adds sweetness and moisture to the filling.
Cheese-cake mixture
Sets in the oven, giving a creamy, rich filling inside the pastry.
Puree of fruit
Adds fruity flavour and moisture to the filling.

The step that matters

Draw out the canes after baking. The pastry must be set and firm before the canes are removed; if it is still soft, the tubes can collapse or tear. Buttering the canes well helps them release cleanly.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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