Why it works: Cream and pistachio work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 634 recipes. Both carry octanal, which smells fat, soap. The science ↓
Moulded Creams
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the hors-d'oeuvre cream as per previous recipes.
Pour the cream into small, lightly oiled moulds and refrigerate until set.
Unmould the creams onto a dish, tartlets with puree, or toast just before serving.
For Duchesses, shape the cream into small choux, glaze with melted jelly, and sprinkle with chopped pistachios.
Serve very cold on decorative fish-papers.
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.
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Cream + pistachiotop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together634 recipes
Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
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