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Caré Au Larr

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,202 recipes mention both. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Caré Au Larr

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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. Coffee + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  2. Coffee + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together4,344 recipes

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

  3. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together77,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Milk and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 77,875 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