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Apple Floating Island

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and rose work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 235 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Apple Floating Island

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Beat the egg whites to a froth.

  2. Mix the frothy egg whites with the apples and add a little rose water.

  3. Sweeten the cream and place the apple mixture on top of it.

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. Apple + rosetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together235 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Egg + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Apple + creamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,089 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Egg + rosetop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,840 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Rose + creamtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,086 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

Egg and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, rose, cream):

  1. Raspberryfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Applethe original

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

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