Name: Raspberry Cream
Ingredients: 1 quart cream; raspberry marmalade

Why it works: Cream and raspberry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,332 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Raspberry Cream

Ingredients

1 quart cream
raspberry marmalade

Directions

Stir raspberry marmalade into the cream until it has a rich raspberry flavor.
Strain the mixture and pour it into glasses.
Reserve some of the mixture to whip into froth for the top.

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.

Cream + raspberrytop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,332 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cream: Forms the rich, creamy body of the dessert and carries the raspberry flavor.
Raspberry marmalade: Adds sweetness, fruit flavor and acidity to the cream.

“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.