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Little Dessert Cakes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and angelica work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 54 recipes. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Little Dessert Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bake the rice cake mixture in very small moulds.

  2. Once cooked, dip the cakes in white glace icing and decorate with crystallised violets and angelica.

  3. Cut the cake into three slices and pour strong unsweetened coffee over each slice.

  4. Reassemble the cake shape.

  5. Beat the butter and castor sugar until creamy, then add ½ pint of coffee and cover the cake with this mixture.

  6. Decorate the top with icing pressed through a piping bag.

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. Rice + angelicatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  2. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Rice + coffeetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together181 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Sugar + coffeetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,344 recipes

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

  5. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the angelica

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Angelicathe original

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

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