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Iced Souffle

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 342 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Iced Souffle

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare Genoese cake and cut it into three or four graduated circular pieces: one 8 inches, one 6 inches, one 4 inches, and one 1.5 inches in diameter.

  2. Stack the cake pieces with fruit jam to form a pyramid.

  3. Arrange rows of prepared fruit (peaches, apricots, pears, or apples) on the pyramid.

  4. At the top, place a vase or cup made from apple or pear filled with a mix of fruits.

  5. Mask the fruit with diluted apricot jam and maraschino.

  6. Use a paper cornet filled with whipped cream to decorate the base in a wave pattern, and add plumed pieces of green angelica.

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. Peach + apricottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together342 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Pear + appletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together649 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Apricot + peartop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Peach + peartop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together114 recipes

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

  5. Apricot + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

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

Swap the angelica

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, apricot, pear, apple, cream):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Clovefits better
  4. Angelicathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, apricot, pear, apple, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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