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Tutti-frutti Candy

A layered fondant candy with walnuts, cherries, pineapple, and nuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 911 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Tutti-frutti Candy

Ingredients

Directions

Make the layers

  1. In separate pans, melt a large piece of white fondant and maple syrup.

  2. Mix English walnut meats with the maple mixture and pour into the bottom of a mold.

  3. Once cooled, take half of the white fondant, color it pink, and flavor with rose or cherry and chopped candied cherries; pour over the first layer.

  4. Flavor the remaining white fondant with vanilla, add nuts and chopped candied pineapple, and pour on top.

Set and serve

  1. Cover the mold with oiled paper and let it stand overnight.

  2. Remove from the mold, place on a fancy plate, and surround with glace nuts.

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. Vanilla + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together911 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Vanilla + nutstop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together638 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Walnut + nutstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Walnut + vanillatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,730 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Walnut + pineappletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together465 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

What each ingredient does

White fondant
Forms the sweet, firm candy base that sets into each layer.
Maple syrup
Adds sweetness and moisture, helping the mixture stay soft and bind with the fondant.
English walnut meats
Add crunch and a nutty texture against the soft fondant layers.
Candied cherries
Add chewy sweetness and colour to the pink layer.
Candied pineapple
Adds chewy, sweet fruit pieces to the top layer.

The step that matters

Let the layers cool before pouring the next one. Pouring hot fondant onto a layer that has not cooled can melt it and blend the layers together, blurring the distinct colours and textures.

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (maple syrup, walnut, meat, rose, vanilla, nuts):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against maple syrup, walnut, meat, rose, vanilla, nuts. 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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