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Chantilly Basket

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Chantilly Basket

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil sugar to make caramel.

  2. Dip smaller Ratafias into the caramel and stick them on a dish in your desired shape.

  3. Dip larger Ratafias into the caramel and stack them to form a basket about 4 to 5 inches high.

  4. Make a rim using Gum Paste or Dragees and place it over the basket.

  5. Line the inside of the basket with wafer-paper.

  6. Before serving, fill the basket with a mixture similar to Trifle and top with plenty of whipped cream.

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

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

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

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