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Souffle of Sweet Potato

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Souffle of Sweet Potato

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Boil the macaroni until tender, then drain and cut into small pieces.

  2. Prepare a soufflé mixture as directed for vanilla soufflés, flavoring with essence of bitter almonds.

  3. Stir in the macaroni when the mixture thickens, then add the yolks of 10 eggs.

  4. Once cooled, fold in the beaten egg whites.

  5. Boil sweet potatoes until tender, then bake in hot embers until dry and floury.

  6. Scoop out the insides and mix with boiled cream flavored with lime peel, sugar, butter, and salt.

  7. Add 4 egg yolks to the potato mixture, then fold in the beaten egg whites.

  8. Pour into a soufflé dish, add 1 tablespoon of butter, and bake at 350°F (175°C).

  9. Once done, sift sugar over the top and use a salamander to finish.

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 + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the lime

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Limethe original

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

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