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Steamed Apple Dumplings

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Biscuit and sauce work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 197 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Steamed Apple Dumplings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a soft biscuit dough.

  2. Shape the dough into dumplings around apples.

  3. Steam the dumplings over rapidly boiling water for 1 hour.

  4. Serve with hard sauce.

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. Biscuit + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together197 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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