Why it works: Cream and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,170 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓
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Ingredients
Directions
Take the cups out of the water and wipe them dry.
Garnish the tops of the creams with candied orange-peel or preserved chips.
To make the dish more economical, substitute milk for cream and add a small pinch of isinglass to firm the creams.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Cream + orangetop 28% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together4,170 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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