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Orange Tartlets

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Why it works: Orange and cocoa work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 53 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Orange Tartlets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cover and decorate the edge of a tart shell with pastry.

  2. Fill the shell with orange marmalade.

  3. Strap it across and bake until golden.

  4. Grate fresh cocoa nut all over when cold.

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. Orange + cocoatop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

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