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Blamange Rubank, Or, Striped Blamange

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Spinach and saffron match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 149 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Blamange Rubank, Or, Striped Blamange

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare 1 quart of blamange, making it a little firmer than usual.

  2. Divide the blamange into three or four equal portions.

  3. To one portion, add enough prepared spinach juice to achieve the desired green color.

  4. To another portion, mix in liquid cochineal or carmine.

  5. For a third portion, add a few drops of strong saffron infusion or mix boiling blamange with beaten egg yolks.

  6. Thicken the egg mixture over gentle heat with a spoonful or two of milk.

  7. For additional color, mix in smooth, boiled chocolate with a small amount of water.

  8. Pour the different colored blamanges into a mold in half-inch layers, ensuring each layer is cool before adding the next.

  9. Rub the insides of the mold with a drop of pure salad oil before pouring in the blamange.

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. Spinach + saffrontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together149 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Milk + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Saffron + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together319 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  5. Spinach + eggtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,323 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the saffron

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spinach, egg, milk, chocolate):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Saffronthe original
  4. Peppermintfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against spinach, egg, milk, chocolate. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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