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A layered jelly made with calf's feet jelly and rose-colored jelly, served with cream flavored with nutmeg or cinnamon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Ices, Creams, Jellies, Etc

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mold

  1. Prepare a mold by wetting it with water.

Layer the jelly

  1. Fill the mold half-full with calves' feet jelly and let it firm up in ice.

  2. Fill the rest of the mold with rose-colored jelly.

  3. Test the jelly's firmness by trying a small amount in a separate mold before filling the main mold.

Creams and garnish

  1. For creams, use one egg yolk for every cup of liquid.

  2. Sprinkle nutmeg or cinnamon over creams served in cups.

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. Nutmeg + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Lemon + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Lemon + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Lemon + rosetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,174 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Syrup + cinnamontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together990 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Calves' feet jelly
Provides a firm, set base layer that holds its shape when unmolded.
Rose-colored jelly
Forms the upper layer, setting firmly so the two layers stay distinct.
Egg yolks
Thicken and enrich the creams as they cook and set.
Isinglass
Acts as a gelling agent that helps the jelly set firmly.

The step that matters

Let the first layer firm up before adding the next. Gelatin-style jellies set as they cool. If the second layer is poured onto a liquid base, the layers will mix instead of separating into distinct bands.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rose, syrup, nutmeg, cinnamon, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Orangefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rose, syrup, nutmeg, cinnamon, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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