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Tartlets, Granville

A sweet tartlet filled with currants, ground rice, candied peel, cake crumbs, and coconut, topped with transparent icing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,063 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Tartlets, Granville

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Cream the butter and sugar together until thick and smooth.

  2. Add the currants, ground rice, candied peel, cake crumbs, cream, and lemon essence. Mix until well combined.

Bake and serve

  1. Fill tartlet shells with the mixture and bake until set.

  2. Top with transparent icing before serving.

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. Rice + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

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

  5. Butter + coconuttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Creams with the sugar to give the filling a rich, tender texture.
Castor sugar
Creamed with the butter to add sweetness and help build a smooth, thick base.
Ground rice
Adds body to the filling so it holds its shape and sets when baked.
Cake crumbs
Add bulk and softness, giving the filling a moist, crumbly texture.
Currants
Add concentrated sweetness and chewy fruit pieces throughout the filling.

The step that matters

Baking until set. Underbaked filling stays wet and runny, while overbaking dries it out and makes it crumbly. Bake until the centre is firm to the touch so the filling sets without losing moisture.

Swap the currant

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, rice, coconut, egg, cream, lemon. 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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