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Payesh of Poppy Seeds

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Poppy seed and cardamom share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 45 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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. Poppy seed + cardamomtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  2. Cassia + cardamomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Cardamom + pistachiotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Cardamom + gheetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together622 recipes
  5. Cardamom + raisintop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together69 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (poppy seed, cassia, cardamom, ghee, milk, sugar, pistachio):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against poppy seed, cassia, cardamom, ghee, milk, sugar, pistachio. 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).