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Another Cream Filling

A sweet cream filling made with powdered sugar, hot water, egg white, raisins, walnuts, and grated coconut.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and walnut work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 647 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Another Cream Filling

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine one cup powdered sugar and one-fourth cup hot water; let them simmer.

  2. Beat the white of an egg and mix with the mixture.

  3. When the mixture is cold, add one-half cup chopped raisins, one-half cup chopped walnuts, and one tablespoonful of grated coconut.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

137Calories
1 gProtein
3 gFat
29 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Waternot in our table0

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

By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. Raisin + walnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together647 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Sugar + walnuttop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,147 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Powdered sugar
Provides sweetness and body, thickening the filling as it dissolves into the hot water.
Egg white (in the method)
Adds structure and lightness, helping the filling hold together and become airy when beaten.
Chopped raisins
Adds chewy texture and natural sweetness to the filling.
Chopped walnuts
Adds crunch and a toasty, nutty flavor that contrasts with the soft filling.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before adding the fruit and nuts. Adding the raisins, walnuts and coconut to a hot mixture can cause them to soften or sink, and an egg white folded into heat can scramble or deflate. Cooling first keeps the filling smooth and evenly textured.

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Pistachiofits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, raisin. 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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