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Corn Meal Nougats

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,943 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Corn Meal Nougats

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil water until all is dissolved, then strain.

  2. Cook to 246°F (119°C) or 248°F (120°C) and add cocoa butter.

  3. Remove from heat and mix in corn meal and enough macaroon coconut.

  4. Flavor with ground nutmeg and vanilla.

  5. Roll out thin on a greased surface and cut into small pieces for dipping.

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. Corn + vanillatop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,943 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Nutmeg + vanillatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Corn + nutmegtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together563 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Cocoa butter + vanillatop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Cocoa butter + nutmegtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cocoa butter, corn, vanilla):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegthe original
  3. Peppermintfits less well
  4. Clovefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cocoa butter, corn, vanilla. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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