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Chocolate Cream Candy

A sweet candy made from sugar, milk, chocolate, butter, and vanilla.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Chocolate Cream Candy

Ingredients

Directions

Make the candy

  1. In a saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat.

  2. Add the sugar and milk, stirring until the sugar is completely dissolved.

  3. Add the chocolate and stir until melted.

  4. Let the mixture boil gently until it forms a soft ball when dropped in cold water.

Finish and set

  1. Remove from heat, add vanilla, and beat for two minutes.

  2. Pour into a buttered pan and mark into squares when nearly cool.

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. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Forms the sweet, crystalline body of the candy as it cooks and sets.
Milk
Adds moisture and milk solids that make the candy creamy and soft.
Chocolate
Adds chocolate flavour and fat that help give the candy its richness and smoothness.
Butter
Adds fat for a smooth, tender texture and a richer mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Boiling to the soft-ball stage. Cooking the sugar mixture to the right temperature controls how much water evaporates and how the sugar crystallizes. Too little cooking leaves the candy soft and runny, while too much makes it hard and grainy.

“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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