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Chantillt Cake, or Cake Trifle

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,332 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chantillt Cake, or Cake Trifle

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bake a rich cake in a mold.

  2. To hollow it out, use one of two methods: 1) Use an inner mold, about 3 inches smaller than the outer one. Butter the outside of the inner mold and form the cake around it. Bake, then remove the inner mold to create a space for the custard.

  3. 2) Fill the regular mold and bake. Carefully cut out the inside of the cake with a sharp knife, avoiding piercing the outside.

  4. Fill the hollowed cake with thick rich custard, then add a thin layer of raspberry jam, and top with whipped cream.

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. Raspberry + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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