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Gains Boro’ Tart. Pastry. Preserve.

A pastry tart filled with preserve and a ground rice mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Gains Boro’ Tart. Pastry. Preserve.

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Cover 2 plates with the prepared pastry.

  3. Spread preserve over the pastry.

Make and bake the tart

  1. In a bowl, mix ground rice, sugar, baking powder, melted butter, and eggs until well combined.

  2. Carefully spread the mixture over the preserve.

  3. Bake until golden brown.

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. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Rice + vanillatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,352 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Butter + vanillatop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Ground rice
Forms the bulk of the filling, giving it a soft, slightly grainy body.
Eggs
Bind the filling and help it set as it bakes.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps it brown during baking.
Melted butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender texture.
Baking powder
Lifts the filling so it bakes lighter rather than dense.

The step that matters

Carefully spread the mixture over the preserve. The preserve layer sits under the filling, so spreading gently keeps the layers separate instead of mixing them. Disturbing the layers can make the tart uneven in colour and texture once baked.

Swap the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, egg, sugar, butter):

  1. Vanillathe original
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Lemonfits less well
  4. Raisinfits less well

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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