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Fruit Cream Frosting

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and grape are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,771 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Fruit Cream Frosting

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix cold boiled milk with glycerine in a bowl.

  2. For peach icing, prepare peach and cream as for candy, then stir in confectioners sugar until spreadable.

  3. For banana icing, prepare banana and cream as for candy, then proceed as with peach icing.

  4. For orange icing, prepare oranges as for candy, stir in confectioners sugar until stiff, then add 2 tablespoons cream and mix until spreadable.

  5. For pineapple icing, prepare pineapple and cream as for candy, then proceed as with peach icing.

  6. For grape icing, mix ½ cup grape juice with confectioners sugar until stiff, then add 2 tablespoons sweet cream and mix until spreadable.

  7. For currant icing, mix ½ cup currant juice and proceed as for orange icing.

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. Orange + grapetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Milk + grapetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,682 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Orange + curranttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,034 recipes

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

  5. Milk + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,696 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

Swap the currant

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, sugar, cream, orange, grape. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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