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To Make Flummery, or Blomange

A dessert made from calf's feet jelly, almond mixture, milk, butter, rose water, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk 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 ↓

To Make Flummery, or Blomange

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the jelly

  1. Boil the calf's feet until you have a strong jelly, reducing it to 1 quart.

  2. Strain the jelly through a colander.

  3. Let the strained jelly sit overnight to remove fat.

Make the almond milk

  1. Blanch the almonds.

  2. Pound the blanched almonds with butter and rose water.

  3. Boil the almond mixture in ½ cup of new milk.

  4. Strain the boiled almond mixture well.

Combine and set

  1. Combine half of the jelly stock with the almond milk in a saucepan.

  2. Sweeten the mixture to taste.

  3. Heat the mixture until hot.

  4. Remove the mixture from heat.

  5. Stir the mixture until nearly cold.

  6. Mix in enough thick cream to make it white.

  7. Wet your molds.

  8. Pour the mixture into the molds.

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

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

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

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

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

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

  5. Rose + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,465 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Calf's feet
Their collagen makes a strong jelly that sets the flummery.
Sweet almonds
Pounded into the milk, they give the flummery its flavour and pale body.
Thick cream
Adds richness and a white, creamy colour to the set mixture.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the pounded almond mixture.

The step that matters

Stir the mixture until nearly cold. Stirring while the mixture cools keeps it smooth and evenly textured, so it does not separate or form a skin before it is poured into the molds and begins to set.

“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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