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Green Melon in Flummery

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 352 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Green Melon in Flummery

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make a little flummery with bitter almonds and enough spinach juice to achieve a pale green color.

  2. Wet your melon mold and pour in the flummery mixture.

  3. In a large bowl, add 1 pint of clear calf's foot jelly and let it sit until the next day.

  4. Turn out the melon and place it right side down in the bowl of jelly.

  5. Fill the bowl with jelly that is beginning to set and let it sit overnight.

  6. Turn it out the same way as the fruit in jelly and garnish with flowers.

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. Almond + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together352 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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