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Darioles

A sweet pastry made with flour, eggs, sugar, cream, and candied orange flowers, baked in puff pastry‑lined molds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and angelica work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 159 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Darioles

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the filling

  1. Beat the egg and mix it with the flour.

  2. Add the sugar and a pinch of salt, then mix well.

  3. Beat the egg and add the yolk and white to the mixture.

  4. Add the cream and mix thoroughly.

  5. Incorporate the crystallized orange flowers, candied peel, angelica, and preserved cherries.

Bake and serve

  1. Line small buttered molds with puff pastry.

  2. Fill the molds with the mixture.

  3. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven.

  4. Sift sugar over them and serve very hot.

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.

Explore the science

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. Orange + angelicatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Flour + angelicatop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together104 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolks
Add richness and help the filling set into a custard-like texture when baked.
Cream
Adds fat and moisture, giving the filling a soft, tender texture.
Flour
Thickens the mixture so it holds its shape rather than running loose.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps it brown lightly in the oven.
Puff pastry (in the method)
Forms the crisp, flaky case that holds the filling in each mold.

The step that matters

Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven. Too little heat leaves the egg-based filling runny, while too much can overbrown or dry it out before it sets. Watch the color and firmness closely.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, egg, sugar, cream, angelica):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, egg, sugar, cream, angelica. 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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