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Marzipan Cherries

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and angelica share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Marzipan Cherries

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Divide the marzipan and color and flavor it as desired.

  2. Cut each cherry crosswise at one end with scissors.

  3. Form the marzipan into small balls and insert one into the cut end of each cherry, pressing it in with the back of a knife.

  4. Make a hole at the other end of the cherry with a skewer and insert a small stick of angelica.

  5. Ensure the colors used harmonize with the cherries.

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. Walnut + angelicatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

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