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Chestnut and Apple Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Chestnut and apple work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 95 recipes. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

Chestnut and Apple Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel the chestnuts and place them in boiling water. Boil briefly, then remove from heat, peel off the second skin, and wash.

  2. Boil the chestnuts until tender, then stew them in a little butter and sugar.

  3. Peel and slice the apples, then steam them in a little water until tender.

  4. Add wine, sugar, and lemon peel to the apples, then mix with the chestnuts.

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. Chestnut + appletop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Apple + winetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,207 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Chestnut + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together381 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Wine + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,157 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

Swap the chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, apple, wine, lemon):

  1. Almondfits about as well
  2. Chestnutthe original
  3. Hazelnutfits about as well
  4. Pistachiofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, apple, wine, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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