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Chantilly Baskets and Cups

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Biscuit and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 388 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Chantilly Baskets and Cups

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grease the inside and outside of molds with butter or oil to prevent sticking.

  2. Boil clarified sugar until it caramelizes.

  3. Dip ratafias into the caramel and arrange them around the inside of a dish.

  4. Cut more ratafias into squares, dip them in caramel, and place them cornerwise on the bottom layer.

  5. Continue stacking uncut ratafias on top of the square-cut cakes to create a multi-layered basket.

  6. Line the inside with wafer-paper and fill it with sponge biscuits, sweetmeats, and blanched almonds.

  7. Top with lightly piled whipped cream and garnish with rose leaves, candied violets, coloured comfits, or caramel sugar.

  8. Prepare oranges by cutting through the rinds to create a pattern, then remove the fruit with a vegetable scoop.

  9. Boil the orange peel baskets in thin syrup until they become transparent, about one hour.

  10. Carefully lift each basket out and place it on a perforated sheet or sieve to drain.

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. Biscuit + almondtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together388 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Almond + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Rose + orangetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together876 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 orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, biscuit, almond, cream, rose):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, biscuit, almond, cream, rose. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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