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Puffs D LA Flora

A puff pastry triangle filled with lemon curd and raspberry jelly, dusted with powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and raspberry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,109 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Puffs D LA Flora

Oven, in the book's wordsA sharp oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a sharp oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the pastry

  1. Roll out the puff pastry thinly and cut into squares of 3 to 4 inches.

  2. Brush the corners with beaten egg.

  3. Fold the corners to meet in the center.

  4. Flatten the folded pastry with a rolling pin without rolling it out completely.

  5. Place the folded pastries on a board.

Fill and shape

  1. Add a bit of lemon curd in the center.

  2. Top with a spot of raspberry jelly.

  3. Egg the edges.

  4. Fold over to form triangles.

  5. Sprinkle with cold water.

  6. Roll in powdered sugar.

Bake

  1. Bake in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C) until they open up.

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.

Explore the science

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. Lemon + raspberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + eggtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  5. Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Puff pastry
Its layers of fat and dough puff apart in the oven, forming a flaky, airy shell.
Lemon curd
Its rich, tart filling sets as it heats, adding acidity and a creamy center.
Raspberry jelly
Adds fruity sweetness and tartness that contrasts with the lemon curd.
Beaten egg
Glazes the pastry surface and helps the edges seal and brown in the oven.
Powdered sugar
Dissolves slightly on the pastry and adds sweetness and a light finish.

The step that matters

Sealing the edges before baking. Egg wash on the edges and firm folds help the pastry seal, so the filling stays inside instead of leaking out as the puffs expand in the hot oven.

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, egg, sugar):

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Limefits about as well
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, egg, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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