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Kussia Cream

A custard dessert made with eggs, milk, sugar, gelatin, and vanilla, set in a mold and chilled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Kussia Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Dissolve the gelatin in warm water.

  2. Beat the egg yolks and sugar together.

Make the custard

  1. Cook the mixture with the milk over low heat until it thickens like custard.

  2. Remove from heat.

  3. Stir in the beaten egg whites quickly for a few minutes.

  4. Add the dissolved gelatin and vanilla and mix well.

Set and serve

  1. Pour into a mold.

  2. Refrigerate to harden.

  3. Unmold onto a platter.

  4. Cut into blocks to serve.

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. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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

Eggs
Yolks thicken the custard and whites add lightness to the mixture.
Gelatine
Sets the liquid custard so it holds its shape when chilled and unmolded.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that thickens into the custard.
Sugar
Sweetens the custard and helps balance the flavor of the eggs and milk.

The step that matters

Cooking the milk and yolk mixture over low heat. Egg yolks thicken at gentle heat; if the mixture gets too hot it can curdle or scramble, so low heat and steady stirring keep it smooth.

“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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