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Chocolate Candy

A chocolate candy made by cooking brown sugar, butter, and water, then adding grated chocolate and setting into squares.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Chocolate Candy

Why it works: Sugar and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,404 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Chocolate Candy

Ingredients

Directions

Make the candy

  1. In a saucepan, combine brown sugar, butter, and water.

  2. Cook over medium heat until the mixture reaches a smooth consistency.

  3. Stir in the grated chocolate until fully melted.

Set and cut

  1. Pour the mixture onto buttered plates.

  2. Allow to cool slightly, then score into squares.

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. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Butter + chocolatetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,543 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Brown sugar
Provides sweetness and the caramel-like flavour and body of the candy.
Grated chocolate
Adds richness and chocolate flavour, melting into the sugar syrup to set smoothly.
Butter
Adds fat for a smoother texture and a rounder, richer flavour.
Water
Dissolves the sugar so it can be cooked evenly without crystallising early.

The step that matters

Cooking the sugar mixture. Cooking over medium heat until the mixture is smooth matters because the sugar's concentration sets the final texture. Too little cooking leaves the candy soft and sticky; too much makes it hard or grainy. Stirring keeps the sugar dissolved and prevents scorching on the bottom of the pan.

“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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