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Snow Jelly

A chilled jelly dessert made from strawberry and lemon jelly, coconut, powdered sugar, grape juice, egg whites, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Strawberry and grape match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 290 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Snow Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Make the strawberry jelly

  1. Dissolve the strawberry jelly powder in hot water.

  2. Fill molds and allow to cool until hard.

  3. Turn the jelly onto a platter and cover with grated coconut, sifting powdered sugar over the top.

Make the lemon snow

  1. Dissolve the lemon jelly powder in hot water, then add grape juice and mix well.

  2. Allow to cool.

  3. Beat the egg whites to stiff peaks.

  4. When the lemon jelly begins to thicken, gradually add the beaten egg whites while beating continuously.

  5. When it holds its shape, put it in a mold and set on ice again.

Serve

  1. Serve with whipped cream.

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. Strawberry + grapetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together290 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Strawberry + coconuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together201 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Coconut + grapetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together436 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Coconut + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg whites
Whipped to stiff peaks, they add airy, foamy lightness to the lemon jelly.
Strawberry jelly powder
Gelatin-based setting agent that firms the base into a sliceable jelly.
Lemon jelly powder
Gelatin-based setting agent that gives the fluffy lemon layer its body and structure.
Grape juice
Adds fruit flavor and sweetness to the lemon jelly liquid.
Whipped cream
Adds rich fat and a soft, creamy contrast to the jelly.

The step that matters

Folding in the egg whites. Egg whites must be added once the lemon jelly has thickened but is still soft enough to fold. If it is too liquid, the whites deflate and the foam collapses; if it has set too firmly, they will not blend in evenly and the snow texture is lost.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (strawberry, coconut, sugar, grape, egg, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pineapplefits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against strawberry, coconut, sugar, grape, egg, cream. 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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