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Souffle of Chocolate

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Chocolate and sauce work together. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 354 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Souffle of Chocolate

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the chocolate by dissolving it.

  2. Incorporate the dissolved chocolate into the mixture.

  3. Flavor the sauce with additional chocolate.

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. Chocolate + saucetop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together354 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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