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Stone Cream

A chilled dessert made from cream, egg yolks, gelatin, and strawberry jam.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Stone Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Dissolve the gelatine in the water.

  2. Boil the cream in a saucepan.

Make the custard

  1. Stir in the egg yolks and cook for 2-3 minutes.

  2. Add the dissolved gelatine and mix well.

Set

  1. Let the mixture cool slightly, then pour it over the strawberry jam until firm.

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. Cream + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Cream + strawberry jamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together143 recipes
  3. Egg + strawberry jamtop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together212 recipes

Cream and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 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

Gelatine
Sets the cream so it holds its shape once cool.
Cream
Provides richness and a smooth, creamy body.
Egg yolks
Thicken the cream as they cook and add richness.

The step that matters

Stir in the egg yolks and cook gently. Egg yolks thicken the cream as they heat, but they can scramble if the mixture gets too hot. Keeping the heat moderate and stirring constantly gives a smooth, thickened base.

Swap the strawberry jam

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Strawberry jamthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, egg. 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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