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Solomon's Y Eniple in Flummery

A layered flummery dessert made with pink, chocolate, and white flummery, set in a mold and decorated with flowers and rock candy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and coffee are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,497 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells buttery, creamy. The science ↓

Solomon's Y Eniple in Flummery

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the colors

  1. Divide the flummery into three parts.

  2. Color one part pink with cochineal steeped in French brandy.

  3. Scrape the chocolate finely and dissolve it in a little strong coffee.

  4. Mix the dissolved chocolate with another part of the flummery to create a light stone color.

  5. Leave the last part white.

Fill the mold

  1. Wet the temple mold.

  2. Place the mold in a pot to stand evenly.

  3. Fill the top of the mold with red flummery for the steps.

  4. Fill the four points with white flummery.

  5. Fill the mold with chocolate flummery.

  6. Let it stand until the next day.

Unmold and decorate

  1. Loosen the flummery around the edges with a pin, being careful not to dip the mold in warm water.

  2. Turn it out onto a plate.

  3. Decorate with small sprigs of flowers and rock candy sweetmeats.

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. Chocolate + coffeetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Flummery
Forms the set body of the mold, holding its shape when turned out.
Chocolate
Gives the stone-colored part its flavor and darkens the flummery.
Cochineal
Colors one portion pink without changing the set.

The step that matters

Loosen the flummery around the edges with a pin. Gentle loosening lets the set flummery release cleanly. Dipping the mold in warm water can soften the surface and make the shape slump or tear when turned out.

“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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