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Rahequins of Cheese Pastry

A puff pastry pastry filled with grated cheese, folded and baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,253 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Rahequins of Cheese Pastry

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Roll out leftover puff pastry lightly.

  2. Sprinkle grated cheese over the pastry.

  3. Fold the pastry in thirds.

  4. Sprinkle cheese on each fold.

Shape and bake

  1. Cut shapes with a pastry cutter.

  2. Brush the shapes with the beaten egg.

  3. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until golden.

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. Cheese + eggtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,253 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Puff pastry
Its layers of fat and dough puff up in the oven, giving a flaky texture.
Grated cheese
Melts and browns during baking, adding savoury flavour and richness.
Egg
Brushed on as a glaze, it promotes even browning and a glossy golden finish.

The step that matters

Brush the shapes with the beaten egg. The egg glaze is what browns the pastry evenly and gives it a shiny finish. Applying it thinly and evenly prevents pooling and uneven colour.

“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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