Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Finger Biscuits
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the batter using 12-20 eggs and 1 pound of sugar.
Fill a biscuit forcer with the batter and secure the open end.
Cut a sheet of paper in half and fold it lengthwise to mark a center line.
Hold the forcer in your right hand and press the batter out with your thumb, guiding the pointed end with your left hand.
Drop the batter in straight lines, about 3 inches long and ½ inch wide, forming two rows divided by the center line.
Place the sheet on a large piece of kitchen paper with a ridge of sifted sugar at the top.
Lift the corners of the paper to transfer the biscuits onto the sugar.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together122,807 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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