Why it works: Molasses and chocolate work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 618 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓
Molasses Chocolate Crisp
Ingredients
Directions
Make a batch of Molasses Chips without marking them.
Use a rolling pin to break them into fine pieces.
In a large tin pan, mix the crushed chips with enough thin chocolate to just cover them.
Place the pan over a kettle of lukewarm water.
Using a teaspoon, scoop out small portions and drop them onto wax paper.
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.
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Molasses + chocolatetop 22% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together618 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
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