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Chocolate Angel Food

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Chocolate and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,994 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Chocolate Angel Food

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Sift and measure the flour.

  2. Stir in the grated chocolate and sift thoroughly.

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. Chocolate + flourtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,994 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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