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Cream Cherries

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and cherry work together. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 827 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Cream Cherries

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make a small round ball of French cream.

  2. Cut a strip of citron the size of a cherry stem.

  3. Place the ball of cream on one end of the citron strip.

  4. Cut a cherry glace in half and place one half on each side of the stem on the cream ball.

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 + cherrytop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together827 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

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