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Trilby Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and cherry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 890 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Trilby Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Whip the cream until very stiff.

  2. Cut the marshmallows into small pieces with scissors, dipping them in powdered sugar to prevent sticking.

  3. Mix the whipped cream, walnuts, marshmallows, and almond extract together and mold into shape.

  4. Decorate with canned cherries.

  5. Soak the macaroons in cherry wine for 10 minutes, then remove them.

  6. Beat the eggs slightly, then add sugar, salt, milk, and cream.

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. Vanilla + cherrytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together890 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Walnut + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together993 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Vanilla + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Almond + cherrytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together672 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Walnut + cherrytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together347 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sugar, vanilla, almond, cherry, wine, egg):

  1. Pistachiofits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Hazelnutfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, vanilla, almond, cherry, wine, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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