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Compote of Pears a LA Zingara

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and angelica work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 159 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Compote of Pears a LA Zingara

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Simmer the pear slices in syrup until tender.

  2. Glaze the pears in their own syrup.

  3. Prepare slices of oranges similarly to the Compote of Apples a la Cintra.

  4. When ready to serve, alternate layers of pears and oranges, stacking them three tiers high.

  5. Decorate the oranges with angelica and the pears with damson cheese or currant jelly.

  6. Pour flavored syrup with Dantzic brandy around the base.

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. Orange + angelicatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Pear + orangetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together323 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Pear + cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together96 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  4. Pear + angelicatop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Pear + brandytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the angelica

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pear, syrup, orange, cheese, brandy):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Clovefits better
  4. Angelicathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pear, syrup, orange, cheese, brandy. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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