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Fleur of Apricots

A pastry ring filled with baked rice, topped with apricot compote and sweetened whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and syrup are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,964 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Fleur of Apricots

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Bake the shell

  1. Grease a fleur ring and place it on a greased tin.

  2. Roll out the pastry to fit the ring and fill it with baking rice.

  3. Bake in a hot oven (400°F / 200°C) for about 30 minutes.

  4. Remove the rice and crisp the pastry slightly in the oven.

Fill and finish

  1. Once cold, layer apricots or other fruit compote in the pastry and add some syrup.

  2. Pipe or pile sweetened and flavored whipped cream on top.

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. Cream + syruptop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Cream + ricetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Rice + syruptop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Rich short crust
Forms the crisp, sturdy shell that holds the filling.
Baking rice
Weighs down the pastry during baking so it keeps its shape.
Fruit compote
Adds concentrated fruit flavor and a soft, moist layer.
Sweetened and flavored whipped cream
Adds lightness, richness and a sweet, creamy topping.

The step that matters

Blind baking the pastry shell. Baking rice holds the pastry flat while it sets, preventing puffing and shrinkage. The shell must be fully cooled before filling, or the warm pastry will soften and the cream may melt.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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