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Corbeille En Sucre File Garnie De Meringues

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and pistachio match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 693 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Corbeille En Sucre File Garnie De Meringues

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Rub the inside of the basket mould with a little oil.

  2. Spin sugar to create spun sugar in the mould.

  3. Once ready, remove the spun sugar basket from the mould and place it on a sheet of pate d'Office.

  4. Insert three supports into the basket and place a sheet of pate d'Office on top.

  5. Fill the top with round meringues filled with creme Plombiere or iced cream.

  6. Garnish the basket with four festoons of spun sugar.

  7. Decorate the serving board with small madeleines au citron.

  8. Optionally, fill the basket with imitation apples made from almond paste and garnish with small gaufres.

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. Almond + pistachiotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together693 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Pistachio + biscuittop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Almond + biscuittop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together388 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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

  5. Cream + pistachiotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together634 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cream, almond, pistachio, biscuit):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Applethe original

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

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