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Cream Candies in Bars

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cream Candies in Bars

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Melt leftover cream in boiling water two or three times until smooth and firm.

  2. Keep flavors and colors separate; work each into a ball size.

  3. Line cardboard cases with wax paper and press in a piece of cream candy.

  4. If the case isn't full, level the surface and press in another color.

  5. Combine flavors that complement each other, like pink on white or yellow on chocolate.

  6. If the paste crumbles, moisten your hands with a little water.

  7. For stiff chocolate, add a little butter.

  8. Once firm, remove the bars and cut into cubes with a warm, sharp knife.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Coconut + chocolatetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Nuts + chocolatetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together440 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Coconut + nutstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Cream + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

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

Swap the coconut

The recipe marks coconut as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, nuts, butter, chocolate):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutthe original
  3. Strawberryfits less well
  4. Raspberryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, nuts, butter, chocolate. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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