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Chocolate Sticks

Chocolate sticks are spiced cookies made with eggs, sugar, chocolate, almonds, citron, spices, flour, and baking powder.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Chocolate Sticks

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Beat the eggs and brown sugar until light.

  2. Add the spices and grated chocolate.

  3. Blanch the almonds, chop them, and finely cut the citron.

  4. Mix the almond and citron with the flour and baking powder.

  5. Combine the two mixtures.

Shape and bake

  1. Roll out on a floured board and cut into strips 3½ inches long.

  2. Bake in shallow buttered pans at 350°F (175°C) for 10 to 15 minutes.

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.

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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.

  1. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Allspice + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Cinnamon + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Almond + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Almond + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the batter and give it structure as they set in the oven.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and moisture, and helps the sticks brown during baking.
Flour
Forms the main structure of the dough so the strips hold their shape.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the dough to lift it and give a lighter crumb.
Almonds
Add texture and richness, with a crunchy bite against the soft dough.
German sweet chocolate
Adds flavour and fat, melting slightly to enrich the dough.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, almond, chocolate, cinnamon, allspice, flour):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cardamomfits better
  3. Clovethe original
  4. Gingerfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, almond, chocolate, cinnamon, allspice, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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