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Filling Chocolate

A chocolate filling made with sugar, milk, egg yolks, butter, and melted chocolate.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Filling Chocolate

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the base

  1. Combine sugar, milk, and egg yolks in a saucepan.

  2. Cook over medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring constantly.

  3. Remove from heat and stir in butter until melted.

Add the chocolate

  1. Melt chocolate separately.

  2. Add melted chocolate to mixture while it cools.

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

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

  2. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Chocolate + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Chocolate + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,543 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolks
Their proteins set when heated, thickening the filling and adding richness.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps keep the filling smooth and soft once cooled.
Milk
Provides the liquid base that the yolks thicken and the sugar dissolves into.
Chocolate
Supplies the main chocolate flavor and fat that give the filling body.
Butter
Adds fat that gives a glossy, smooth, rich mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Cooking the yolk mixture over medium heat. Egg yolks thicken as their proteins set, but if the heat is too high or stirring stops, they can scramble and turn grainy. Constant stirring spreads heat evenly so the filling thickens smoothly.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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