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Modelling Flowers in Fine Gum Paste

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and saffron work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 185 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Modelling Flowers in Fine Gum Paste

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Divide the gum paste into the principal colors: white, red, blue, and yellow.

  2. Make compounds of green, violet, dark orange, and pale orange using these colors.

  3. To model a rose, use green paste for the calyx and yellow paste for the heart, attaching them with wire.

  4. Moisten saffron with gum arabic to imitate seeds and attach them to the heart.

  5. Roll out red paste thinly and cut out leaves with a tin cutter.

  6. Shape the leaves with a modeling tool and attach them around the heart.

  7. Push the calyx into the mold and finish to imitate nature.

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. Orange + saffrontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together185 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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