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Layer Cake Filling Combinations

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 303 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Layer Cake Filling Combinations

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare custard cream for filling and chocolate and marshmallow for frosting.

  2. For a peach filling, use white frosting flavored with almond extract.

  3. Make almond cream filling and top with white frosting mixed with pounded macaroons.

  4. Combine 2 or 3 jellies like orange, currant, and crab apple for filling, and frost with white frosting mixed with jelly cubes.

  5. For a lemon jelly and orange marmalade filling, use whipped cream frosting with dots of quince 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. Peach + appletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

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

  2. Peach + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Almond + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Peach + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together385 recipes

    Shared aroma: pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Orange + appletop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

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

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 (cream, chocolate, peach, almond, orange, crab, apple):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, chocolate, peach, almond, orange, crab, apple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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