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Steamed Whip with Guava Sauce

A steamed egg-based dessert topped with stewed guavas or guava syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Alexander, Agnes B. (Agnes Baldwin), 1875-1970 · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Steamed Whip with Guava Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Make the whip

  1. Whip the egg whites of 4 eggs with 2 tbsp sugar and 1 tsp lemon extract.

  2. Pour the mixture into a tin mold.

Steam and serve

  1. Place the mold in a container of boiling water on the stove.

  2. Steam for 20 minutes.

  3. Invert the mold onto a serving dish.

  4. Arrange stewed guavas or diluted guava syrup around the dessert.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

139Calories
7 gProtein
5 gFat
17 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Alexander, Agnes B. (Agnes Baldwin), 1875-1970. 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. See the original page.

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. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + eggtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Whipped whites trap air and set into a light, delicate structure when steamed.
Sugar
Sweetens the dessert and helps stabilise the whipped egg whites.

The step that matters

Steam for 20 minutes. Steam gently and keep the water boiling steadily. Overheating can make the egg structure weep, pock or turn rubbery, while too little heat leaves the centre runny.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Datesfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg. 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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