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Tartelettes De Prunes De Reine Claude —

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Plum and syrup work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 143 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Tartelettes De Prunes De Reine Claude —

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Divide the plums in half and remove the kernels.

  2. Boil three halves of the plums in syrup.

  3. Place the boiled halves in each tartlet.

  4. Finish the tartlets as directed.

  5. Use eight halves in each tartlet.

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. Plum + syruptop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together143 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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