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Chantilly Baskets

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Chantilly Baskets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Oil a mold slightly.

  2. Dip the edges of the macaroons in the boiled sugar and fasten them together inside or outside the mold.

  3. Once the sugar is cold, remove the mold and attach the basket to a base made from gum paste or croquant paste.

  4. Ice and decorate the base with royal icing.

  5. Line the inside with Charlotte russe crust or ladyfingers and fill with sweetened whipped cream.

  6. Create a handle from spun sugar or royal icing and add finishing touches for decoration.

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).

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

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