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Orange Baskets

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,301 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Orange Baskets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Detach the pulp from the rind of the oranges using a teaspoon.

  2. Press the pulp through the orange parts removed on each side of the handle.

  3. Snip the edges of the orange rind to form a decorative shape.

  4. Brush the inside of each orange basket with clarified butter.

  5. Fill each basket with orange jelly.

  6. Serve on a napkin with a thick slice of sponge cake in the center, topped with the orange baskets.

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 + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,301 recipes

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

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

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