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Green Melon in Flummery

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 352 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Green Melon in Flummery

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add plenty of bitter almonds to stiff flummery.

  2. Mix in enough juice of spinach to achieve a pale green color.

  3. When thick like cream, wet your melon mold and fill it with the mixture.

  4. Pour a pint of clear calf’s feet jelly into a large bowl and let it stand overnight.

  5. Turn out the melon and place it in the center of the bowl of jelly.

  6. Fill the bowl with jelly that is beginning to set and let it stand overnight.

  7. Turn it out the next day as you did with the fruit in jelly.

  8. Make a garland of flowers and place it on the jelly.

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. Almond + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together352 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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