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Flan De Pornnes a LA Portugaise

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 777 recipes. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

Flan De Pornnes a LA Portugaise

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the cores from 10 apples, keeping them whole, and dress them in a light syrup made with 6 ounces of sugar.

  2. Peel and chop the remaining apples, then melt them in the same syrup until they form a firm marmalade.

  3. Add half of the orange rind and stir continuously to prevent sticking.

  4. Rub the cooked apples through a sieve and mix in 2 tablespoons of apricot jam.

  5. Build a higher crust as in the previous recipe, and place 4 tablespoons of the marmalade in the flan.

  6. Arrange the whole apples on top, filling their cores with apricot jam, and fill the flan with the remaining marmalade.

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. Apple + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  2. Orange + apricottop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together703 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

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

  4. Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + apricottop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,630 recipes

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

Apple and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, sugar, apricot):

  1. Pearfits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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

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