Why it works: White wine and almond work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 331 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓
Tipsy Cake
Ingredients
Directions
Pour white wine over the sponge cake until it absorbs as much as possible.
Stick blanched sweet almonds, cut like straws, all over the cake.
Alternatively, pour wine over a thick slice of sponge cake.
Cover the top with preserved strawberries or raspberries.
Stick cut almonds all around the cake.
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.
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White wine + almondtop 22% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together331 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
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