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Chocolate Creams

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Why it works: Spirit and wine work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 701 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

Chocolate Creams

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare starch trays and plaster of Paris molds.

  2. Smooth the trays and molds with small cream molds.

  3. Melt the cream gently, ensuring it does not boil.

  4. Fill the molds with the melted cream and let them set for about an hour.

  5. Carefully remove the creams from the molds using a soft brush.

  6. Melt the sweet chocolate paste until smooth.

  7. Dip the creams into the melted chocolate, two or three at a time, using a long fork.

  8. Place the coated creams on glazed paper or tin sheets to dry.

  9. Store in a cool place to harden.

  10. Optionally, glaze with a solution of shellac and spirits of wine using a camel's-hair brush.

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. Spirit + winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together701 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Cream + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  3. Cream + spirittop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together99 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. Cream + winetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Chocolate + spirittop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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