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Tourraine Chocolates

Chocolate-covered strips of whole wheat bread topped with nuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Tourraine Chocolates

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the whole wheat bread and butter each slice.

  2. Cut the bread into 1-inch wide strips.

Coat and set

  1. Cover each strip with melted sweet chocolate.

  2. Sprinkle finely-chopped nuts on top.

  3. Let the chocolates stand for an hour to harden.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Chocolate + nutstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together440 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Wheat + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Wheat + nutstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Wheat + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

What each ingredient does

Whole wheat bread
Forms the sturdy base that holds the chocolate and nuts.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender, moist bite to the bread.
Sweet chocolate
Provides a sweet coating that sets firm as it cools.
Finely-chopped nuts
Adds crunch and a toasty flavor to the chocolate topping.

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, bread, butter, chocolate):

  1. Peanutfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Almondfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, bread, butter, chocolate. 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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