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Short-ceust for All Kinds of Fruit, Treacle, or Jam Tarts, &C.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Short-ceust for All Kinds of Fruit, Treacle, or Jam Tarts, &C.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, mix the flour and salt together.

  2. Add the dripping and cover it with flour, then rub it lightly into the flour with your fingertips.

  3. Gradually work in enough cold water to form a stiff paste.

  4. Quickly shape the mixture into a stiff ball, minimizing waste.

  5. Flour your work surface and rolling pin, then roll out the paste to the desired shape.

  6. Roll out the short-crust only once to keep it tender.

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. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

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