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Maple Sugar Frosting

A frosting made from maple sugar, cold water, and egg white, boiled to thread stage and beaten until smooth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Maple Sugar Frosting

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. In a saucepan, combine maple sugar and cold water.

  2. Boil the mixture until it reaches the thread stage.

Finish the frosting

  1. Pour the hot syrup over the beaten egg white.

  2. Beat the mixture for a few minutes until well combined.

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. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 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

Maple sugar
Provides the sweet maple flavor and, once boiled, the body of the frosting.
Egg white
Its proteins trap air when beaten, giving the frosting a light, airy texture.

The step that matters

Pouring the hot syrup over the egg white. The syrup is very hot and concentrated. Pouring it in a thin stream while beating cooks the egg white gently and lets it foam evenly, instead of forming lumps or deflating.

“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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