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A Gertrude a LA Creme

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,437 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-methylbutanol, which smells malty, whiskey. The science ↓

The recipe

Oven, in the book's wordsA gentle oven

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Slice the pound or rice cake as for Charlotte a la Parisienne.

  2. Use a tin cutter to remove a round piece from the center of each slice before adding preserve.

  3. Reassemble the slices in their original form.

  4. Ice the outside with green or rose colored icing and dry in a gentle oven, or decorate with almond paste leaves attached with egg white.

  5. Just before serving, fill the center with well-drained whipped cream flavored to your taste.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Rice + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

  2. Rose + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,465 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Almond + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,129 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  4. Rice + rosetop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together245 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Egg + creamtop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together41,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

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