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To Ornament a Jelly Cake

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,404 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

To Ornament a Jelly Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim the edge of the jelly cake and coat it with water icing.

  2. Prepare a cone of white icing or pink sugar.

  3. Pipe white lines on the cake using the cone.

  4. Fill in between the lines with fruit jelly using a cone filled with jelly.

  5. Pipe leaves for the grapes with a leaf cone.

  6. Pipe grapes with a plain round cone.

  7. Decorate the edge with simple dots of white sugar.

  8. Optionally, use fruit jelly instead of sugar for the grapes or chocolate ice instead of water icing.

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. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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