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Raspberry Comfits

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and raspberry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,101 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Raspberry Comfits

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare gum paste using sugar or scrapings from the comfit-pan, pounded and sifted.

  2. Mix raspberry jam into the paste for flavor.

  3. Color the mixture with prepared cochineal.

  4. Mold the paste into raspberry shapes.

  5. Dry the molded raspberries in the stove until hard.

  6. Pearl them by working until they are the size of natural raspberries.

  7. Color them again with cochineal when dry.

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. Sugar + raspberrytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

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

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

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