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Steamed Whip with Guava Sauce

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

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and guava work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Steamed Whip with Guava Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Make the egg whip

  1. Whip the egg whites until stiff peaks form.

  2. Gently fold in the sugar and lemon extract.

  3. 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. Surround with stewed guavas or drizzle with diluted guava syrup.

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.

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. Lemon + guavatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

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

  3. Egg + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

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

  4. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + guavatop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together115 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

Egg whites
Whipped into stiff peaks, they trap air and set into a light, airy structure when steamed.
Sugar
Stabilises the whipped foam and adds sweetness to the egg whip.
Stewed guavas or guava syrup
Provides fruity sweetness and moisture to accompany the set egg whip.

The step that matters

Folding in the sugar and lemon extract. Folding gently keeps the air bubbles in the whipped egg whites intact. Overmixing deflates the foam, so the steamed egg whip will be dense rather than light.

Swap the guava

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

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Guavathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, lemon. 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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