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Almond Darioles

A sweet pastry made with butter, flour, sugar, milk, cream, eggs, lemon peel, and almond essence.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,673 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Almond Darioles

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Make the batter

  1. Beat the butter until creamy.

  2. Mix in the flour, sugar, milk, cream, eggs, and lemon peel until well combined.

  3. Add almond essence drop by drop to taste.

  4. Stir the mixture over low heat for 10 minutes.

Bake and serve

  1. Line dariole molds with tartlet paste.

  2. Fill the molds three-quarters full with the batter.

  3. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for about 20 minutes until the pastry is ready.

  4. Turn the darioles out of the molds, sprinkle with sifted sugar, and serve.

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.

Explore the science

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. Flour + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the custard and add structure and richness to the batter.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender, creamy texture to the batter.
All-purpose flour
Gives the batter body and helps it hold its shape when baked.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the crust brown.
Cream
Adds fat and moisture, producing a softer, richer custard.

The step that matters

Stir the mixture over low heat for 10 minutes. Eggs thicken when heated, but too much heat can scramble them. Gentle, steady low heat keeps the batter smooth and lets it thicken evenly before it goes into the molds.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, flour, sugar, milk, cream, egg, almond):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, flour, sugar, milk, cream, egg, almond. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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