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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,964 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Afplb Charlotte

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make a nice syrup.

  2. Cut the apples very fine.

  3. Boil the apples in the syrup with the lemon peel until perfectly transparent.

  4. Once done, pour the mixture into a large tumbler or mold and let it sit overnight to solidify.

  5. Turn it out into a glass dish.

  6. Pour a rich soft custard over the solidified apple mixture.

  7. If desired, top with whipped cream and bits of currant jelly.

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. Syrup + creamtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Apple + curranttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  3. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Lemon + curranttop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,270 recipes

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

  5. Syrup + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, syrup, lemon, cream):

  1. Pearfits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Currantthe original

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

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