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Maple Filling

A spreadable maple syrup filling thickened with powdered sugar and optionally mixed with finely chopped nuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Maple Filling

Why it works: Maple syrup and nuts work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 67 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Maple Filling

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil 1 cup of maple syrup for 5 minutes.

  2. Stir in powdered sugar until you achieve a spreadable paste.

  3. Optionally, mix in finely chopped nuts.

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. Maple syrup + nutstop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Maple syrup + sugartop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,252 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Sugar + nutstop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,228 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Maple syrup
Provides the main sweetness and maple flavor, and its sugars set into a thick, spreadable texture as it cooks.
Powdered sugar
Thickens the syrup and adds body, turning it into a spreadable paste.

The step that matters

Stirring in powdered sugar. Powdered sugar is added gradually because it thickens the syrup quickly. Adding too much at once can make the filling stiff and hard to spread, so stir until it reaches a spreadable consistency.

Swap the nuts

The recipe marks nuts as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (maple syrup, sugar):

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Cashew nutfits about as well
  3. Nutsthe original
  4. Flaxseedfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against maple syrup, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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