Skip to main content

Cold Sweet Entremets

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Almond and hazelnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 186 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cold Sweet Entremets

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make the apricot jam liquid and spread it on both surfaces of the cake rings.

  2. Stack the rings to form a pyramid and let the gateau set.

  3. Coat the outside with chocolate icing and decorate with royal icing as desired.

  4. Fill the cornets with prepared custard and sprinkle with chopped pistachios.

  5. Attach the cornets around the gateau with a little icing.

  6. When ready to serve, remove the top piece, fill with well-frozen strawberry cream ice, and replace the top.

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.

Explore the science

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. Almond + hazelnuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together186 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Apricot + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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

  4. Almond + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,456 recipes

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

  5. Apricot + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together703 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apricot, egg, honey, almond, hazelnut, rice, butter):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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

You might also like

Orange Bundt CakeOrange Bundt Cake349 recipesOrange Cream Rice PuddingOrange Cream Rice Pudding121 recipesRice CakeRice Cake120 recipesOrange GelatinOrange Gelatin100 recipes