Why it works: Butter and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Party Puffs
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Make a rich paste and roll it out thin.
Cut the rolled paste with a biscuit cutter.
Grease a shallow tin pan with butter and place the cut paste on it.
Roll out puff paste and cut it to the same size.
Cut a hole in the center of each puff paste piece with a small glass, leaving a rim.
Place the puff paste pieces on top of the first pieces of paste.
Brush the tops with sweetened egg white for a better appearance.
Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until light brown.
Fill the baked puffs with jelly or sweetmeats.
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.
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Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together118,967 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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