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Iced Souffle a LA Byron

A chilled dessert made with sugar syrup, raspberry juice, lemon, maraschino liqueur, egg yolks, chocolate drops, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Iced Souffle a LA Byron

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Mix the sugar syrup and egg yolks in a warm bowl.

  2. Strain in the raspberry juice, lemon juice, and maraschino liqueur.

  3. Whisk until well combined, then remove from hot water and whisk for 10 more minutes.

Finish and freeze

  1. Add the chocolate drops and whipped cream, mixing lightly.

  2. Fill a mold or case and freeze for 2 hours.

  3. Cover the surface with ladyfingers or sponge cake that has been dried in the oven until pale brown and rolled.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately.

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 + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

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

  4. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  5. Raspberry + chocolatetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together457 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

Egg yolks
Thicken and enrich the base, giving the frozen mixture a smooth, custard-like body.
Sugar syrup
Adds sweetness and keeps the frozen texture soft rather than hard and icy.
Whipped cream
Adds lightness and fat, making the frozen mixture creamy and airy.
Raspberry juice
Supplies the main fruit flavour, colour, and tartness.
Maraschino liqueur
Adds aroma and lowers the freezing point, keeping the texture softer.
Chocolate drops
Add pockets of rich, bittersweet flavour and contrast with the fruit.

The step that matters

Whisking over hot water, then off the heat. Egg yolks thicken gently when warmed; if the bowl gets too hot they scramble and curdle. Whisking off the heat cools the mixture and traps air, which keeps the soufflé light after freezing.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, syrup, raspberry, egg, chocolate, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, syrup, raspberry, egg, chocolate, 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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