Why it works: Cream and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓
Iced Biscuits.
Ingredients
Directions
2818—PREPARATION FOR ICED BISCUITS
Whisk in a copper basin, in a _bain-marie_, twelve egg-yolks and one lb. of powdered sugar, until the paste gets very firm and reaches the _ribbon_-stage.
Take the basin off the fire, and whisk until the whole is quite cold. Then, add eight oz. of Italian _meringue_ and one pint of whisked cream.
2819—THE MOULDING OF ICED BISCUITS
These biscuits are moulded in rectangular brick-shaped cases, fitted with lids, top and bottom.
Generally, the preparation moulded in the covers is of a different flavour and colour from the one filling the middle of the mould.
For example, one of the covers may be garnished with strawberry, and the other with violet preparation, while the central portion may hold a vanilla-flavoured preparation. After having frozen them for three hours, in a pail filled with freezing ice, and turned them out, these bricks are cut up vertically into rectangles, on the cut sides of which the differently coloured layers are distinctly marked. Place these rectangles in special paper cases; decorate them on top, if the directions admit of it, and place them in a refrigerator until about to serve.
Nearly all Bombe preparations may become the base of biscuits, which are then named after them; _e.g._: from Bombe Odessa, Odessa Iced Biscuits may be prepared.
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.
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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.
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Cream + eggtop 24% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together42,166 recipes
Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Cream and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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