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Ices, and Iced Soufflees

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and biscuit match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 388 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Ices, and Iced Soufflees

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a saucepan, combine milk and beaten egg yolks. Stir over low heat until it thickens, then cool.

  2. In a brass pan, simmer pineapple and sugar until tender, then strain and cool.

  3. Melt sugar in a brass pan until brown, add chopped almonds, stir for a few minutes, then cool and pound.

  4. Cut preserved ginger into small pieces, add to cream with some syrup and essence of ginger.

  5. Pound ratafia biscuits in a mortar, boil with milk, strain, and cool before adding to cream with essence of ratafia.

  6. Grate lemon rinds on loaf sugar, pound in a mortar.

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. Almond + biscuittop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together388 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Ginger + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + gingertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together559 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Almond + gingertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, egg, sugar, almond, ginger, biscuit, lemon):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, egg, sugar, almond, ginger, biscuit, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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