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Petites Timbales De Riz. Aux Fruits

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Why it works: Plum and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 284 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Petites Timbales De Riz. Aux Fruits

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Brush muffin rings inside with butter.

  2. Coat the rings with fine grated bread crumbs.

  3. Fill the rings with rice cake and bake until brown.

  4. Serve with stewed green gage plums, half an apricot, or three red cherries on top.

  5. Alternatively, use stamped gem pans and decorate with shapes cut from candied citron or watermelon rind.

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. Plum + apricottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Rice + apricottop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together353 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  4. Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the plum

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

  1. Peachfits about as well
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Vanillafits about as well
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, butter, bread, apricot, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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