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‘Darioles’ with Vanilla

A small vanilla pastry made with eggs, sugar, flour, almonds, and milk, baked in moulds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,961 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

‘Darioles’ with Vanilla

Oven, in the book's wordsA slack oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a slack oven”. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the moulds

  1. Butter the clariole moulds and line them with thin short pastry or puff pastry.

  2. Place a small piece of butter at the bottom of each mould.

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, break the eggs and add sugar and vanilla.

  2. Mix in flour and pounded almonds, then work the mixture for 2 minutes.

  3. Dilute the mixture with milk and fill the moulds.

Bake and serve

  1. Place the moulds on a baking sheet and bake in a 300°F (150°C) oven for 30 minutes.

  2. Five minutes before removing, sprinkle with vanilla-flavored sugar.

  3. Let cool and serve.

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. Vanilla + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Flour + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Vanilla + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

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

  5. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the batter and set into a light, tender custard structure when baked.
Flour
Provides structure so the batter holds its shape as it bakes.
Dried almonds
Add body and a nutty flavor to the pastry filling.
Milk
Thins the batter and adds moisture so it bakes into a soft custard.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the top brown lightly during baking.

The step that matters

Working the batter for 2 minutes. Mixing flour and almonds into the eggs and sugar develops the batter's structure evenly. Overworking can make the filling tough, while skipping it leaves the flour unevenly distributed.

“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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