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Caramel Filling

A sweet caramel filling made with brown sugar, sweet milk, butter, and grated chocolate.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Caramel Filling

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Caramel Filling

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine brown sugar, sweet milk, butter, and grated chocolate in a saucepan.

  2. Bring to a boil over low heat, stirring constantly.

  3. Continue to cook until the mixture thickens enough to spread.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Milk + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Butter + chocolatetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,543 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Brown sugar
Provides sweetness and molasses flavour, and its dissolved sugars thicken as the mixture cooks.
Sweet milk
Liquid that dissolves the sugar and carries the mixture to a spreadable, creamy texture.
Butter
Fat that adds richness and a smooth, glossy mouthfeel to the filling.
Grated chocolate
Adds cocoa flavour and depth, and some richness to the filling.

The step that matters

Stirring constantly while the mixture boils. Sugar and milk can scorch or stick to the bottom of the pan over heat, giving a burnt taste. Constant stirring spreads the heat evenly and lets the sugar thicken smoothly into a spreadable filling.

“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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