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Apple Snow

Apple Snow is a dessert made from grated apples, sugar, eggs, corn starch, milk, lemon juice, and whipped egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,955 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Apple Snow

Ingredients

Directions

Make the apple base

  1. Cook the grated apples with ½ cup sugar until smooth.

  2. Let cool.

  3. Beat the egg white and a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form.

  4. Mix the stiff egg whites with the cooled apples.

  5. Let the mixture rest for 30 minutes.

Make the custard and serve

  1. In a saucepan, combine 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon corn starch, ¼ cup sugar, and 2 cups milk.

  2. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until a thin custard forms.

  3. Add lemon juice to the custard.

  4. Pour the custard over the apple snow.

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. Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  2. Apple + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  3. Corn + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,927 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Apple + corntop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together330 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Tart apples
Provide the fruit base and tartness that balances the sweetness.
Egg white
Whipped into stiff peaks to give the apple mixture a light, airy texture.
Eggs
Thicken the custard as they cook, giving it body and richness.
Corn starch
Stabilises the custard so it thickens smoothly without curdling.
Milk
Forms the liquid base of the custard and adds richness.

The step that matters

Cooking the custard over low heat. Egg proteins set at moderate temperatures, so cooking slowly while stirring constantly keeps the custard smooth. High heat can scramble the eggs and make it lumpy.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, egg, corn, milk, lemon):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, corn, milk, lemon. 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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