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Supreme of Fruits, a I a Victoria

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pear and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 648 recipes mention both. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Prepare a Genoese cake about 1 inch thick.

  2. Cut out three or four graduated circular pieces: 8 inches, 6 inches, 4 inches, and 1.5 inches in diameter.

  3. Stack the pieces with fruit jam to form a pyramid.

  4. Arrange rows of prepared fruit on the pyramid.

  5. Create a vase or cup from apple or pear at the top, filled with fruit mousse.

  6. Mask the fruit with diluted apricot jam and maraschino.

  7. Use a piping bag to decorate the base with whipped cream in a wave pattern.

  8. Garnish with plumed pieces of green angelica.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pear + appletop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together648 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Peach + apricottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together341 recipes

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

  3. Apricot + peartop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Peach + peartop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together114 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

  5. Apricot + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together777 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the angelica

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, apricot, pear, apple, cream):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Clovebetter flavor fit
  4. Angelicathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, apricot, pear, apple, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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