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Pancakes a LA Pbancaibb

A sweet pancake with a fragrant sauce made from ratafia, lemon rind, and orange flower water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Pancakes a LA Pbancaibb

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a saucepan, melt the butter.

  2. Add the pounded ratafia, lemon rind, and pounded sugar; mix well.

  3. In a separate bowl, beat in the 3 eggs and then the yolks of 3 more eggs, mixing thoroughly.

  4. Stir in the milk, cream, and orange flower water until thickened to a good cream consistency.

Fry and make the sauce

  1. Heat clarified butter in a pan, then pour it out and add the batter to make thin pancakes.

  2. After frying the pancakes, leave 1 tablespoon of batter in the pan.

  3. To the remaining batter, add orange flower water, sugar, pounded ratafia, and 1 egg yolk; mix with some cream.

  4. Serve the sauce in a boat alongside the pancakes.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the batter and add richness and structure to the thin pancakes.
Egg yolks
Add richness and tenderness, helping the batter thicken to a cream consistency.
Butter
Adds richness and flavour, and clarified butter helps the pancakes fry without sticking.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture, giving the batter a smooth, thickened texture.

The step that matters

Stir in the milk, cream, and orange flower water until thickened to a good cream consistency. The batter must be smooth and of the right thickness before frying. If it is too thick, the pancakes will be heavy; if too thin, they will tear or stick. Mixing the eggs thoroughly first prevents lumps.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, lemon, sugar, egg, milk, cream, sauce):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits about as well
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Orangethe original

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

“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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