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Bermuda Witches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,063 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Bermuda Witches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the Savoy cake into pieces no thicker than ⅙ inch.

  2. Remove the brown edges from the slices.

  3. Spread half of the slices with Guava jelly or your choice of jelly.

  4. Sprinkle fresh grated coconut over the jelly.

  5. Press the remaining slices on top to form a sandwich.

  6. Trim the edges for a neat appearance.

  7. If large, cut the slices and arrange them in the center of a dish on a flat white napkin.

  8. Garnish with small sprigs of myrtle.

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. Rice + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Guava + coconuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Rice + guavatop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together15 recipes

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

  4. Guava + myrtletop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Coconut + myrtletop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

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

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