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Meringue, a LA Parisienne

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Meringue, a LA Parisienne

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a slow oven”. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Make the office-paste and roll it out thinly.

  2. Rub the outside of a 1¼-inch diameter tin vegetable-cutter and cover it with the paste, sealing the join with egg.

  3. Place the cutter on a buttered baking sheet.

  4. Roll out the remaining paste to ⅛ inch thick and cut two circles, one 6 inches and the other 4 inches in diameter.

  5. Place the circles on a buttered baking sheet, brush with egg wash, prick with a fork, and bake in a 300°F (150°C) oven until light in color.

  6. Once cooled, smooth the edges of the baked pieces and level the ends of the pillar.

  7. Attach the base of the pillar to the center of the larger flat with a mixture of egg white and fine sugar.

  8. Attach the smaller flat on top of the pillar, ensuring it is straight, and let it dry.

  9. Whip the egg whites into a firm froth and gradually mix in the powdered sugar.

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. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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