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Gooseberry or Apple Trifle

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and white wine work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 372 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Gooseberry or Apple Trifle

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald the gooseberries or apples until soft.

  2. Pulp the fruit through a sieve to create a thick layer at the bottom of your dish.

  3. If using apples, mix in the grated lemon rind.

  4. Add sugar to the fruit mixture to taste.

  5. In a separate bowl, gradually mix the milk with the rice flour, stirring continuously.

  6. Strain the mixture into a stew-pan and heat over medium heat, stirring until it boils.

  7. Remove from heat and let cool until half cold.

  8. Stir in the brandy and noyeau or ratafia.

  9. Spread the custard over the fruit layer in the dish.

  10. Whip the cream with the egg white and sugar until frothy.

  11. Spoon the whipped cream over the custard, creating a high mound.

  12. Garnish with colored comfits on top.

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 + white winetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together372 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Brandy + white winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together620 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Lemon + white winetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Apple + brandytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,291 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, sugar, milk, brandy, cream, egg, white wine):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, sugar, milk, brandy, cream, egg, white wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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