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Cinnamon Stick Biscuits

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Biscuit and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 312 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Cinnamon Stick Biscuits

Oven, in the book's wordsA slack oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a slack oven”. The 300°F in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Prepare the fancy biscuit paste.

  2. Add cinnamon powder and a small amount of ammonium carbonate to the paste.

  3. Roll the mixture out very thin on wafer paper.

  4. Cut and shape the dough into small rods to resemble cinnamon sticks.

  5. Bake in a slack oven (300°F / 150°C).

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. Biscuit + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together312 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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