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Cinnamon Squares

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,784 recipes. Both carry anethole, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Cinnamon Squares

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour the stock candy onto buttered baking sheets in thin layers.

  2. Drizzle cinnamon essence over the candy.

  3. Gently stir the top to mix the essence.

  4. When the candy is nearly cold, use a knife to score it into squares for easy breaking.

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. Butter + cinnamontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

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

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