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Pastry Ramakins

Pastry Ramakins are puff pastry shapes rolled with Parmesan cheese, brushed with egg yolk, and baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Parmesan cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,163 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Pastry Ramakins

Oven, in the book's wordsA brisk oven

Ingredients

Directions

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

Prepare the pastry

  1. Roll out the puff pastry evenly and thinly.

  2. Sprinkle a little grated Parmesan over the pastry, fold it, and roll it out again.

  3. Sprinkle more cheese on top, then roll it out once more.

Shape and bake

  1. Stamp the pastry into fancy shapes and brush with the egg yolk.

  2. Place the ramakins on a buttered baking sheet and bake in a brisk oven at 400°F (200°C) for about 15 minutes.

  3. Serve hot, ideally with cheese.

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. Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Parmesan cheese + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Puff pastry
Its layers of butter and dough puff in the oven, giving the ramakins a light, flaky structure.
Parmesan cheese
Adds savoury, salty flavour and browns during baking for a golden, nutty crust.
Egg yolk
Brushed on top, it promotes even browning and a glossy, golden finish.

The step that matters

Brush with the egg yolk before baking. The yolk coats the surface so it browns evenly and glossily. Applying it unevenly or letting it pool can cause patchy colour and can seal the edges so the layers do not rise cleanly.

“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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