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Whipped Cream Sauce for Decorating

A light whipped cream sauce thickened with sugar and flour, used for decorating desserts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Whipped Cream Sauce for Decorating

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chill the cream in a cold place or on ice.

  2. Beat the cream slowly and evenly until it thickens and the beater stands in it.

  3. Add a pinch of salt to improve consistency.

  4. Drain the whipped cream on a sieve for 30 minutes.

Finish and serve

  1. Beat in 4 to 6 tablespoons of powdered sugar and flour to the whipped cream.

  2. Use a piping bag and tube to decorate cold puddings.

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.

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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 + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Cream + flourtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Double cream
Its high fat content lets it whip into a stable foam that holds its shape.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves easily into the whipped cream without making it grainy.
Flour
Helps stabilise the whipped cream so it holds its shape when piped.

The step that matters

Beat the cream slowly and evenly. Overbeating cream past soft peaks causes it to separate into butter and liquid, and fast uneven beating can do this in patches. Slow, even beating builds a smooth, stable foam.

“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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