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Almoncl- Cheesecakes

A sweet almond-based cheesecake made with sweet and bitter almonds, eggs, butter, lemon, and rose or orange flower water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Almoncl- Cheesecakes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Blanch and pound the sweet and bitter almonds with a little orange-flower or rose-water.

  2. Stir in the beaten yolks and whites of the eggs.

  3. Add the warmed butter, grated lemon peel, and lemon juice.

  4. Sweeten with powdered sugar and mix well.

Bake

  1. Bake in small patty pans lined with pastry until set.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

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

  3. Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

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

  5. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet almonds
Provide the main body and nutty flavour of the filling.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set firm when baked.
Fresh butter
Adds richness and a tender, moist texture to the filling.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps it brown lightly as it bakes.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Eggs set as their proteins coagulate with heat. Pulling the patty pans too early leaves a runny centre, while overbaking makes the filling dry and rubbery.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, egg, butter, lemon, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Orangethe original
  4. Raisinfits about as well

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

“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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