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Empress Frederick Timbal

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Pistachio and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 693 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Empress Frederick Timbal

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare Oenoise paste and cut it into rings about 4 inches in diameter.

  2. Stack 6 rings on top of each other, spreading a little apricot jam between the layers.

  3. Cover the outside with white icing and let it cool until the icing is firm and dry.

  4. Decorate with button meringues, attaching them with a little icing.

  5. Garnish the top edge with tiny roses made from royal icing and add strips of angelica or pistachio nuts.

  6. Place the timbal on a serving dish lined with paper.

  7. Fill the timbal with alternate layers of burnt almond, strawberry, and cinnamon ice creams, smoothing the top.

  8. Use a piping bag to decorate with garnishing cream mixed with a few drops of carmine.

  9. Optionally, garnish with spun sugar.

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. Pistachio + almondtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together693 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Almond + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Pistachio + nutstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together425 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Apricot + strawberrytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together183 recipes

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

  5. Angelica + pistachiotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apricot, angelica, pistachio, almond, cream, strawberry, cinnamon):

  1. Hazelnutfits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apricot, angelica, pistachio, almond, cream, strawberry, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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