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Rye Bread Torte

A torte made with rye bread crumbs, almonds, chocolate, citrus, spices, eggs, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 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 ↓

Rye Bread Torte

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, mix the citron pieces with the beaten egg yolks and sugar.

  2. Add the juice and rind of the lemon and orange.

  3. Combine the stale rye bread crumbs, grated almonds, grated chocolate, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice.

  4. Mix all ingredients together until well combined.

  5. Fold in the beaten egg whites gently.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a greased baking pan.

  2. Bake for one hour.

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

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Orange + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Orange + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Whites trapped by folding add lift and an airy, light crumb to the torte.
Stale rye bread crumbs
Provide body and a dense, moist crumb that gives the torte its character.
Grated almonds
Add richness, moistness and a tender texture without much flour.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter, helping the torte rise in the oven.
Sugar
Sweetens the batter and helps tenderise it and brown the crust.

The step that matters

Fold in the beaten egg whites gently. Egg whites hold air that gives lift. Stirring them vigorously knocks out this air and produces a dense, heavy torte.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rye, bread, orange, almond, chocolate, cinnamon, clove):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rye, bread, orange, almond, chocolate, cinnamon, clove. 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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