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Cannelons Frits a LA Creme De Pithiviers—

Fried almond cannelons filled with a sweet almond mixture and served with Pithiviers cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Cannelons Frits a LA Creme De Pithiviers—

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Pound the sweet and bitter almonds together until fine.

  2. Mix in the sugar, lemon rind, butter, egg yolks, double cream, candied orange-flowers, and salt until well combined.

Fry and serve

  1. Prepare a sheet of puff paste and form it into cannelons.

  2. Fry the cannelons until golden brown.

  3. Sift sugar over the cannelons 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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Almond + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  5. Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet almonds
Provide the main body and nutty flavour of the filling.
Bitter almonds
Add a concentrated almond aroma that stands out against the sweet almonds.
Egg yolks
Bind the almond paste and add richness and a smooth, set texture.
Butter
Adds fat for a rich, tender filling that holds its shape.
Fine sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps it brown lightly when fried.

The step that matters

Frying the cannelons until golden brown. Frying in hot fat browns the puff paste quickly through the Maillard reaction. If the fat is too cool, the pastry absorbs oil and turns greasy before it crisps, while too much heat can burn the outside before the filling warms through.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, sugar, lemon, butter, egg, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits about as well
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Orangethe original

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

“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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