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Hard Sance. Sauce a LA Creme Dure.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 35,032 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Hard Sance. Sauce a LA Creme Dure.

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Recipe from a historical cookbook.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Vanilla + nutmegtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Butter + vanillatop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together20,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Butter + nutmegtop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together24,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,032 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the nutmeg

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

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, egg, vanilla. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).