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Frozen Kiss Pudding

A chilled dessert made with whipped cream, vanilla extract, ground kisses, Maraschino liqueur, sherry, and candied cherries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and sherry work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 506 recipes. Both carry piperonal, which smells bitter, coconut. The science ↓

Frozen Kiss Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. In a large bowl, mix the whipped cream, vanilla extract, ground kisses, Maraschino liqueur, and sherry until well combined.

  2. Transfer the mixture into a mold.

Freeze and serve

  1. Pack the mold in a mixture of coarse sea salt and chopped ice.

  2. Freeze for 3 to 4 hours.

  3. Before serving, add a few chopped candied cherries on 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.

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. Vanilla + sherrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  2. Cream + vanillatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Cream + sherrytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

Cream and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,301 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

Whipped cream
Provides airy volume and a light, creamy texture once frozen.
Ground kisses
Adds sweetness and body to the base.
Sherry
Adds aroma and a touch of flavour depth to the base.
Maraschino liqueur
Adds sweetness and a distinct cherry-like aroma.

The step that matters

Packing the mold in salt and ice. Salt lowers the melting point of the ice, letting the surrounding mixture get colder than ice alone. This helps the pudding freeze firmly and evenly without relying on a freezer alone.

Swap the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sherry):

  1. Vanillathe original
  2. Strawberryfits about as well
  3. Raspberryfits less well
  4. Pineapplefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sherry. 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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