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Pastry Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Pastry Sandwiches

Oven, in the book's wordsA rather quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a rather quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Roll out the pastry dough thinly.

  2. Place half of the dough on a baking sheet and spread your chosen jam evenly over it.

  3. Cover the jam with another layer of thin pastry, pressing the edges together.

  4. Mark the surface with a knife to indicate where to cut after baking.

  5. Bake for 20 to 30 minutes at 400°F (200°C).

  6. A few minutes before done, remove from the oven, brush with egg white, sprinkle with sifted sugar, and return to the oven to color.

  7. Once cooled, cut into strips and serve piled on a dish.

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. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

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

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