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Capsicums, Pickled

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Capsicums, Pickled

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make puff pastry according to your preferred recipe.

  2. Roll out the pastry very thin and cut into pieces about 2 inches wide and 8 inches long.

  3. Place a spoonful of jam on each piece, wet the edges with egg white, and fold the pastry over twice.

  4. Press the edges together to seal the jam inside.

  5. Fry in hot lard until golden brown, then let them rest by the fire to ensure the pastry is cooked through.

  6. Drain on paper, sprinkle with sifted sugar, and serve.

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. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

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