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Raspberry Creaims

A sweet dessert of raspberry‑flavored cream cut into squares and dried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and raspberry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,332 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Raspberry Creaims

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cream

  1. Flavour and colour the cream.

Shape and finish

  1. Roll out on a sugared board to ½ inch thick.

  2. Cut into squares or rounds with a sharp knife.

  3. Press a small piece of nut or cherry into each centre.

  4. Place on a wire tray to dry.

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. Cream + raspberrytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Prepared cream
Forms the soft body of the squares and sets as it dries.
Essence of raspberry
Gives the cream its raspberry aroma and flavour.

“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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