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Apple Tartlets

Apple tartlets are small pastries filled with apple marmalade and topped with pastry and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Apple Tartlets

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Roll out the tart pastry until thin.

  2. Cut out twenty circular pieces with a fluted cutter.

  3. Line the tartlet pans with the pastry pieces.

Fill and top

  1. Fill each tartlet with a spoonful of apple marmalade.

  2. Cover each tartlet with a mosaic of pastry.

  3. Brush the tops with egg wash.

Bake and finish

  1. Place on a baking sheet and bake at 350°F (175°C) until light in color.

  2. Sprinkle fine sugar over the baked tartlets.

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 + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

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

Apple and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Tart pastry
Forms the thin crisp shell and lid that hold the filling and brown in the oven.
Apple marmalade
Supplies concentrated apple flavour and sweetness, and moisture that softens during baking.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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