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Orgeat Water Ice

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and melon work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 45 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Orgeat Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine almond paste with seeds of melons or small pines.

  2. Do not freeze too much; achieve a desired consistency.

  3. If a firmer texture is needed, freeze the almond paste well.

  4. Once frozen, fold in meringue paste.

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. Almond + melontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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