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Sweet Entremets

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and quince work together. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 506 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Sweet Entremets

Oven, in the book's wordsA gentle oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a gentle oven”. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Remove the core from the apples and fill them with apricot marmalade mixed with whole pistachios.

  2. Place the apples on rounds of buttered paper and glaze them with pounded sugar.

  3. Decorate the apples with rings of pistachios.

  4. Bake the apples on a baking sheet in a gentle oven at 300°F (150°C).

  5. On an entremet dish, place the apple marmalade and form a small base, seven inches in diameter, decorated with pistachios.

  6. When the apples are nicely colored, place the largest apple in the center of the marmalade and arrange the others around it.

  7. Fill the meringues with quince or other marmalade and place one on each apple.

  8. Serve hot or cold, and optionally sprinkle with sugar.

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. Apple + quincetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Apple + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  3. Apricot + quincetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Pistachio + quincetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

  5. Apricot + pistachiotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together188 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the pistachio

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, apricot, sugar, quince):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Pistachiothe original
  4. Hazelnutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, apricot, sugar, quince. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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