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Pippins À LA Normande

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 10,632 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Soak the pippins in cold water for 2 hours, then drain.

  2. In a stewpan, combine pippins, cake crusts, lemon and orange peels, sugar, cinnamon, lemon juice, orange juice, claret, and water to cover.

  3. Simmer slowly until pippins are tender but not broken, then drain and cool.

  4. Add raspberry jam to the cooking syrup, bring to a boil, simmer for 5 minutes, and strain.

  5. Return the liquid to the stewpan and reduce until thick like honey, then finish with cherry brandy and cool.

  6. Cut 3-4 slices of stale madeira cake into rounds, fry lightly in butter, and cool.

  7. Arrange the dish by placing a circle of cake rounds as the base.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,632 recipes

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

  2. Orange + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Orange + raspberrytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together503 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Lemon + raspberrytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

  5. Sugar + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,777 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, orange, sugar, cinnamon, cherry brandy, butter):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Cherryabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Appleabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, orange, sugar, cinnamon, cherry brandy, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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