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Almond Blanc Mange

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and sauce work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 307 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Almond Blanc Mange

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the blanched almonds finely.

  2. Mix the chopped almonds with the essence of bitter almonds.

  3. Serve with melted jelly sauce.

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. Almond + saucetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together307 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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