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Green Gooseberry Tart

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Green Gooseberry Tart

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stem the gooseberries and place them in a porcelain kettle with enough water to prevent burning.

  2. Stew the gooseberries slowly until they break down.

  3. Remove from heat and sweeten well with sugar.

  4. Let the mixture cool, then pour it into pastry shells.

  5. Cover with a top crust of puff pastry.

  6. Brush the top with the beaten egg while hot.

  7. Return to the oven to glaze for three minutes.

  8. Serve cold.

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. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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