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Cocoa Nut Cream

A frozen cream made from grated cocoa nuts and heavy cream, sweetened to taste.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Cocoa Nut Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the cocoa nut from its shell and pare it.

  2. Grate the nut very fine.

Make the cream

  1. Mix the grated nut with the heavy cream.

  2. Sweeten to taste and freeze the mixture.

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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Cocoa + nutstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Cream + nutstop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together886 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  4. Cream + cocoatop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together304 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Nuts + sugartop 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

Heavy cream
Provides rich fat and body, giving the frozen mixture its smooth, creamy texture.
Cocoa nuts
Supply the main flavour and fat, lending the cream its distinctive nutty taste and richness.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and softens the texture of the frozen cream by lowering its freezing point.

The step that matters

Grate the nut very fine. Fine grating breaks the nut into small particles that release flavour and fat evenly into the cream. Coarse pieces leave gritty texture and a weaker taste.

Swap the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, nuts, sugar):

  1. Pistachiofits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Brazil nutfits better
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, nuts, 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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