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Everlasting Syllabubs

A chilled dessert made from cream, wine, orange juice, sugar, and rose or orange water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Everlasting Syllabubs

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syllabub

  1. In a large bowl, combine the cream, Rhenish wine, sack wine, and orange juice.

  2. Sweeten with the double refined sugar and mix well.

  3. Whisk the mixture continuously for about 30 minutes.

  4. Remove the froth and fill glasses with it.

Store and serve

  1. Store in the refrigerator for up to two weeks; best served the day after making.

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. Orange + rosetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together876 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Wine + orangetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,046 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Wine + rosetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together438 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Cream + winetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,887 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Heavy cream
Forms the body of the dish; whisking traps air in the fat to create a light, airy foam.
Sack
Adds a sweet, fortified wine flavour and acidity that balances the rich cream.
Rhenish wine
Adds acidity and wine flavour that cut through the richness of the cream.
Seville oranges
Their juice adds sharp acidity and citrus aroma, and the acid helps thicken the cream.
Double refined sugar
Sweetens the cream and dissolves into the liquid, balancing the acidity of the wine and juice.

The step that matters

Whisking for about 30 minutes. Whisking incorporates air into the fat of the cream to form a stable foam. Under-whisking leaves the mixture thin and unfoamed, while over-whisking can turn cream grainy and separate it into butter.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, wine, sugar, rose. 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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