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Marzipan Green Logs

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and pistachio work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 209 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Marzipan Green Logs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Take a piece of white marzipan and roll it into a pencil shape about 6 inches long and the thickness of a pipe stem.

  2. Flatten a piece of pink marzipan into a strip the same length, ½ inch thick, and wide enough to wrap around the white marzipan.

  3. Moisten the pink marzipan strip slightly with water, wrap it around the white marzipan, and roll them together until united.

  4. Roll out a piece of pale green marzipan and cover the pink marzipan in the same way.

  5. Coat the log with chocolate coating and roll it in minced pistachios.

  6. Allow it to dry, then cut diagonally into logs and discs.

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. Chocolate + pistachiotop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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