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Rylax with Prune Jam

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Rylax with Prune Jam

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare rolled wheat as directed in previous recipes.

  2. Serve with prune jam and fat meat, or with celery or nuts, or with hot cream.

  3. You can add cranberries, prunes, apricots, or apple sauce as good additions.

  4. Mix the yolk of an egg with the wheat and butter if desired.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Wheat + nutstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Wheat + celerytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together149 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Wheat + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,002 recipes

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

  5. Meat + nutstop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together111 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, meat, nuts, cream, butter, egg):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Capersfits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, meat, nuts, cream, butter, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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