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Almond Filling

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,294 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Almond Filling

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, mix 1 cup sugar, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon butter, and 2 teaspoons corn starch mixed with a little milk.

  2. Cook the mixture over hot water until thickened.

  3. For chocolate filling, combine 1 cup sugar, ½ cup grated chocolate, and 1 egg with ½ teaspoon vanilla. Mix well without whipping the egg separately.

  4. For coconut filling, cook 1 cup milk, 1 beaten egg, 1 tablespoon corn starch dissolved in milk, and 1 teaspoon butter over hot water. Stir in ½ cup coconut.

  5. For lemon filling, mix the grated peel and juice of 1 lemon, 1 cup sugar, 1 beaten egg, 1 teaspoon water, and 1 teaspoon flour. Cook in a kettle of hot water, stirring until thickened.

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. Vanilla + coconuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Corn + coconuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Chocolate + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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