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Ch Eddies in a Timbale

A chilled cherry mixture baked in a timbale, flavored with lemon juice and clarified isinglass.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Ch Eddies in a Timbale

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Make a paste for a timbale (see Pastes).

  2. Carefully remove the stones from the cherries without making a large hole.

  3. Break the stones and add the kernels to the cherries.

Make the filling

  1. In a saucepan, heat some clarified sugar and add the cherries.

  2. Let the mixture boil gently until it thickens.

  3. Transfer the mixture to a basin.

  4. Mix in the lemon juice and a little clarified isinglass.

  5. Chill the mixture on ice if available.

  6. Once ready, fill your timbale with the cherry mixture.

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. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Cherries
Provide the main fruit body and flavour of the filling.
Clarified sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps it thicken as it boils down.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweet cherry flavour.
Isinglass
Acts as a gelling agent that helps the filling set when chilled.

The step that matters

Let the mixture boil gently until it thickens. Boiling too hard can break down the cherries and scorch the sugar, while stopping too early leaves the filling too loose to hold its shape in the timbale.

“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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