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Frozen Fruit Cake

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pecans and cream work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 706 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Frozen Fruit Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Break lady fingers and macaroons into large crumbs.

  2. Put raisins in whole and cut nuts into quarters.

  3. Whip the cream slightly.

  4. Mix all ingredients together lightly with the boiled custard.

  5. Put the mixture in a mold with a hole in the center.

  6. Cover with waxed paper and put the lid on the mold.

  7. Pack well and let it remain packed for three and a half hours.

  8. When ready to serve, pour hot water over the mold and slide it onto a platter.

  9. Pour a glass of eggnog into the hole in the center.

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. Pecans + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together706 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

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