Name: Tartlets, Such As Are Made At the Pastry Cooks
Ingredients: Puff Paste (see recipe 469); Apricot jam; Damson jam; Raspberry jam; Strawberry jam; Apple jam; Marmalade; Any other kind of jam

Why it works: Apricot and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 777 recipes. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

Tartlets, Such As Are Made At the Pastry Cooks

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Roll out Puff Paste to ¼ inch thick.
Cut it into round pieces about the size of a coin.
Place a small amount of your chosen jam in the center of each round.
Use additional Puff Paste to create a lattice pattern on top.
Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F (200°C) for 6 to 10 minutes until light 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.

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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.

Apricot + appletop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together777 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).
Apricot + raspberrytop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together257 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Raspberry + appletop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together282 recipes

Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).
Raspberry + strawberry jamtop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together80 recipes

Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).
Apricot + strawberry jamtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together36 recipes

Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).