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Gooseberries in an Open Tart, with or Without Cream

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Gooseberries in an Open Tart, with or Without Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pick and scald the young gooseberries.

  2. Make a tart using the short pastry as you would for grapes.

  3. Serve the tart cold.

  4. If using cream, remove the top crust when the tart is cold and cut it into three corner shapes.

  5. Beat the thick cream and mix in a little powdered sugar.

  6. Spread the cream neatly over the gooseberries and garnish with the crust.

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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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