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Polish Tartlets

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and apricot work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 257 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Polish Tartlets

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderately hot oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Roll out the puff paste thinly.

  2. Cut it into 2.5-inch squares.

  3. Moisten each corner of the squares.

  4. Fold the corners over to meet in the center.

  5. Cover the join with a small round of paste.

  6. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for about 15 minutes.

  7. When cool, place a little raspberry jam at each corner and sprinkle coconut on it.

  8. Place a little apricot jam at each corner and sprinkle finely grated pistachio on it.

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. Raspberry + apricottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together257 recipes

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

  2. Pistachio + coconuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Raspberry + pistachiotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together62 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Apricot + pistachiotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together188 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Apricot + coconuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together100 recipes

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

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

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (raspberry, apricot, pistachio):

  1. Peachfits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against raspberry, apricot, pistachio. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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