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Oaedamom Cookies

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and cardamom match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 405 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Oaedamom Cookies

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the eggs hard, then cool and shell them. Grate the yolks and reserve the whites for salads or garnishing.

  2. In a bowl, combine the grated yolks, sugar, lemon peel, and brandy.

  3. Cream the butter and mix it into the egg mixture.

  4. Gradually sift in the flour until the dough is workable, using just over ½ pound.

  5. Add cardamom seeds and a few drops of rosewater to the dough.

  6. Flour a board generously and roll out the dough.

  7. Cut out shapes with a fancy cutter and brush with beaten egg.

  8. Sprinkle pounded almonds and sugar on top.

  9. For lighter cookies, sift the pulverized ammonia with the flour before mixing.

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. Lemon + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together405 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Cardamom + almondtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together457 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + cardamomtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together643 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  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

Swap the lemon

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

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

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

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