Why it works: Cream and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and 15,640 recipes mention both. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓
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Ingredients
Directions
Mrs. Frank Thomas.
Into a pint of rich cream sweetened with granulated sugar stir sufficient currant jelly to give it a rich pink color. Pour this in a glass dish. In the center put slices of stale plain cake, each piece covered with marmalade or raspberry jam, lapping neatly over each other. Flavor another pint of cream with the juice of 2 lemons, whip up stiffly and pile up over the cake.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Cream + lemontop 30% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together15,640 recipes
Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Cream and lemon share little aroma chemistry, yet 15,640 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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