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Pastry Sandwiches

Pastry sandwiches made from puff pastry and filled with currant, strawberry, or raspberry jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Strawberry and raspberry work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 815 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Pastry Sandwiches

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Divide the puff pastry in half and roll each half into a square as thin as possible.

  2. Place one half on a buttered baking sheet.

Assemble

  1. Spread the half lightly with your choice of currant, strawberry, or raspberry jelly.

  2. Cover with the remaining half of the pastry, pressing the edges together.

  3. Mark the pastry into divisions and bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven for 15 to 20 minutes.

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. Strawberry + raspberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together815 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Currant + raspberrytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together366 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (fruity, sweet).

  3. Currant + strawberrytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together195 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  4. Strawberry + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Raspberry + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rich puff paste
Layers of fat and dough puff up in the oven, creating a flaky, airy structure.
Fine currant jelly
Adds concentrated fruit sweetness and tartness, and its moisture softens slightly as it heats.
Strawberry jelly
Adds fruity sweetness and flavor that becomes sticky and glossy when heated.
Raspberry jelly
Adds fruity sweetness and flavor that becomes sticky and glossy when heated.
Butter
Greases the baking sheet so the pastry releases cleanly and its base browns evenly.

The step that matters

Roll the pastry as thin as possible. Thin dough lets the layers of fat and dough separate and puff well in the oven. Thick pastry bakes dense and doughy rather than light and flaky.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (strawberry, raspberry, butter):

  1. Blackberryfits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against strawberry, raspberry, butter. 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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