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Floating Island

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Des Moines. Plymouth church. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Floating Island

Why it works: Cream and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,640 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Floating Island

Ingredients

Directions

  1. MRS. W. S. PRITCHARD.

  2. Sweeten one pint of rich cream with loaf sugar and stir into it sufficient currant jelly to color it a fine pink. Put it in a glass bowl and place in the center a pile of sliced sponge cake, every slice spread thickly with jam and laid evenly one on another. Have ready another pint of cream flavored with the juice of two lemons and whipped to a stiff froth. Heap it all over the pile of cake so as to entirely cover it; beat the whites of eggs to a very stiff' froth and spread over the top. Both creams must be made very sweet.

  3. 304 . CREAMS AND FANCY DISHES.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

63Calories
1 gProtein
6 gFat
4 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
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 Des Moines. Plymouth church. [from old catalog]. 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.

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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 + lemontop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,640 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,640 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

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