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Sweet Dishes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Kenney-Herbert, A. R. (Arthur Robert), 1840-1916 · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 342 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sweet Dishes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Almohd tartlets . . .51 Ambassadress' pudding . . 82 Antoinette cream . . .112 Apple puree moulded . .127 Apples in pastry cases . . 134 „ marmalade. . . 158 „ with fruit a la Paris-

  2. "ienne . . . 155 „ vrith kirsch . . 34 Banana pudding with straw- berries . . .77 „ puree .... 114 Cake crusts a la Normande . 38 „ with chocolate . 71

  3. „ with peaches . 124

  4. Cake in half mourning . . 53 Cake with cream . . . 104 Charlotte with burnt almonds 27 Chartreuse of peaches . . 146 Chocolate sauce . . ■ . 22 Coffee custard pudding a la

  5. Turque . . .10 „ glaze .... 19 Compote of apricots with rice 149 „ „ bananas with zest

  6. of oranges . 132

  7. „ „ green apricots . 89

  8. „ „ chestnuts . . 14

  9. Cream of macaroons ■. . 30

  10. Dates in custard with maca-

  11. , roons 138

  12. Eclairs with coffee . . 19 Fancy fritters . . .44

  13. Ginger pudding . . .99 Glace royale . . . .27 Green figs glazed with kirsch 107

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

337Calories
4 gProtein
7 gFat
73 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Date1 date (24g) medjool66
Peach1 medium (150g)59
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Fig1 medium (50g)37
Apricot1 medium (35g)17
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Puddingnot in our table0
Cakenot in our table0
Coffeenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Kenney-Herbert, A. R. (Arthur Robert), 1840-1916. 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. See the original page.

Explore the science

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. Peach + apricottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together342 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Apricot + figtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Banana + figtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together104 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Dates + figtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together318 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Peach + figtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together45 recipes

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

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

Swap the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, banana, peach, coffee, apricot, ginger, fig):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, banana, peach, coffee, apricot, ginger, fig. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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