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To Make Flummery, or Blomange

A sweet, creamy dessert made from boiled calf's feet stock, almonds, milk, and rose water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

To Make Flummery, or Blomange

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the stock

  1. Boil calf's feet until reduced to 1 quart or 5 gills.

  2. Strain through a colander and let stand overnight to remove fat.

Make the almond milk

  1. Blanch almonds and pound with butter and rose water.

  2. Boil almond mixture in new milk and strain well.

Set the flummery

  1. Combine half of the stock with sugar and the strained milk in a saucepan. Heat until hot, then stir until nearly cold.

  2. Add thick cream to achieve desired whiteness and stir well.

  3. Wet molds and pour in the mixture.

  4. Let stand for 5 to 6 hours, then turn out.

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

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

  5. Almond + rosetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,465 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Calf's feet stock
Gelatin from the calf's feet provides the firm, sliceable set of the flummery.
Egg whites
Egg whites add structure and lightness to the set dessert.
Sweet almonds
Ground almonds give the dessert its flavour and creamy body.
New milk
Milk adds richness and softness, balancing the firm gel.
Thick cream
Cream adds fat, richness and a creamy whiteness to the mixture.

The step that matters

Stir the mixture until nearly cold before adding cream and pouring into molds. If the mixture is still very warm, the cream can separate or the gelatin will not set evenly. Cooling it first keeps the mixture smooth and lets it firm uniformly in the molds.

“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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