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Sweet Patties

Sweet patties made with calf's foot meat, jelly, apples, candied peel, lemon, nutmeg, egg yolk, brandy, and currants.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Sweet Patties

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop the meat from a boiled calf’s foot.

  2. Combine the meat with jelly, chopped apples, candied orange and lemon peels, fresh lemon peel and juice, grated nutmeg, egg yolk, brandy, and currants, then mix well until combined.

Bake

  1. Spoon the mixture into small patty pans.

  2. Bake at 350°F (175°C) until golden brown.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Lemon + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Brandy + curranttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  4. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Orange + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Calf's foot meat
Provides the body and savoury base of the filling.
Jelly
Adds moisture and gelatinous body that holds the patties together.
Egg yolk
Binds the mixture and helps it set and brown in the oven.
Apples
Add moisture and a mild tart sweetness to the filling.
Currants
Add concentrated sweetness and chewy texture.
Candied orange and lemon peel
Add concentrated sweetness and citrus aroma.

The step that matters

Mixing the filling until combined. The meat, jelly and egg yolk need to be evenly blended so the patties set uniformly and do not turn out with pockets of loose liquid or uneven texture in the oven.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, apple, orange, lemon, nutmeg, egg, brandy):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Blackberryfits better
  3. Cranberryfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, apple, orange, lemon, nutmeg, egg, brandy. 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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