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Sweet Entremets

A baked dessert of buttered bread and apple marmalade.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sweet Entremets

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Assemble

  1. Shape the bread slices to cover the bottom and sides of a mold.

  2. Moisten the bread pieces in melted butter and arrange them in the mold.

  3. Fill the mold with cold apple marmalade.

  4. Cover with additional slices of bread.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 25 minutes.

  2. Serve hot, carefully turning it out onto a dish.

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.

Explore the science

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Bread + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,790 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Butter + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Forms the outer structure that holds the filling and gives the dish its shape.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the bread brown and crisp in the oven.
Apple marmalade
Supplies moisture, sweetness and fruity flavour to the filling.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, butter):

  1. Figfits about as well
  2. Applethe original
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Peachfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter. 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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