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Souffle a LA Heine

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange 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 ↓

Souffle a LA Heine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the sliced French rolls in a saucepan with the ratafia biscuits, sugar, lemon peel, and butter.

  2. Pour boiling milk over the mixture, cover, and let it simmer until the bread absorbs the milk.

  3. Stir the mixture well with a wooden spoon, then add the egg yolks.

  4. Rub the mixture through a fine sieve, adding the thick boiling cream as you do.

  5. Return the mixture to the saucepan and warm it over low heat.

  6. Beat the 6 egg whites and the additional 3 egg whites until frothy.

  7. Gradually mix the beaten egg whites into the batter, along with a little orange-flower water.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

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

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

  5. Biscuit + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together697 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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

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