Why it works: Rice and rose work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 245 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Slice the pound cake or rice cake as for a Charlotte a la Parisienne.
Use a tin cutter to remove a round piece from the center of each slice before adding the preserve.
Replace the slices in their original form.
Ice the outside with green or rose colored icing as desired.
Allow the icing to dry.
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.
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Rice + rosetop 11% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together245 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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