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Open Jam Tart

A tart made with short crust pastry, bread crusts, jam, and twisted pastry strips.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Gooseberry and flour work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Open Jam Tart

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.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Cover an enamel plate with short crust pastry.

  3. Place a few crusts of bread in the center of the pastry.

Bake and assemble

  1. Bake the pastry and bread until golden.

  2. Remove the bread and spread jam over the center of the tart.

  3. Cut thin strips of twisted pastry and arrange them in a pattern over the jam.

Serve

  1. Serve the tart cold.

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. Gooseberry + flourtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Bread + gooseberrytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Bread + flourtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,383 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Bread and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,383 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Short crust pastry
Forms the sturdy base and shell that holds the jam while baking.
Jam
Provides sweetness and fruity flavour, and sets into a glossy filling as it cools.
Bread crusts
Are baked in the centre of the pastry to hold its shape while the base cooks.

Swap the gooseberry

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

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Gooseberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, flour. 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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