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Ornamental Creams

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pistachio and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 693 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Ornamental Creams

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dip a plain ring mold into cold water, then wipe it dry.

  2. Invert the mold onto a dish. If the cream doesn't come out, let it sit briefly or wipe the edges with a warm cloth.

  3. Fill the center of the ice cream ring with berries or whipped cream.

  4. Color the whipped cream for contrast if desired.

  5. Garnish with leaves or additional decorations like spun sugar.

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. Pistachio + almondtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together693 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Chocolate + almondtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,733 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Cream + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  5. Pistachio + chocolatetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the almond

The recipe marks almond as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, pistachio, chocolate, sugar):

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Hazelnutfits about as well
  3. Cashew nutfits about as well
  4. Chestnutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, pistachio, chocolate, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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