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Baked Apples and White Sauce

Baked apples filled with dates, served with white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and dates work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 119 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Baked Apples and White Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Wash and core the apple.

  2. Fill the core with the stoned dates.

Bake and serve

  1. Place the apple in a dish or tin with a few spoonfuls of water.

  2. Bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven until well done.

  3. Serve with white sauce.

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.

Explore the science

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. Apple + datestop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together119 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

What each ingredient does

Apple
Softens as it bakes and holds its shape around the filling, becoming tender and sweet.
Dates
Add sweetness and a soft, sticky texture to the filling inside the apple core.

The step that matters

Baking until well done. The apple must be cooked through until soft. Underbaking leaves firm, starchy flesh, while the water in the dish creates steam that helps the apple cook evenly.

“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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