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Apple Tart

A tart made with sliced apples covered by a yeast‑leavened dough, baked and served with cream or coconut sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Apple Tart

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

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

Prepare the apples

  1. Peel and slice the apples, placing them in a pudding dish with 1 tablespoon of water.

  2. If the apples are very firm, partially cook them before adding the crust.

Make and bake the crust

  1. In a bowl, mix 1 cup of thin cream with ½ cup of yeast and 2 cups of flour until light.

  2. Add enough flour to form a soft dough, then knead thoroughly for 15-20 minutes.

  3. Roll the dough evenly and cover the apples with it.

  4. Let the dish sit in a warm place until the crust rises, then bake at 400°F (200°C).

Serve

  1. Serve cold with cream and sugar, coconut sauce, or mock cream.

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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Flour + saucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,078 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

Quick-cooking tart apples
Provide the fruit filling that cooks down under the crust.
Thin cream
Adds moisture and richness to the dough.
Yeast
Produces gas that makes the crust rise and become light.
Flour
Forms the dough structure that holds the crust together.

The step that matters

Letting the crust rise in a warm place. Yeast needs time and warmth to produce gas; if the crust does not rise properly before baking, it will be dense rather than light.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, flour, sugar, sauce):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, flour, sugar, sauce. 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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