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Maple Mousse

A chilled dessert made from maple syrup, egg yolks, and whipped cream, frozen with ice and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and maple syrup work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 607 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Maple Mousse

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the base

  1. Boil the maple syrup.

  2. Whip the cream lightly.

  3. Beat the egg yolks and gradually add the boiled syrup.

Combine and freeze

  1. Slowly stir the egg yolk mixture into the whipped cream.

  2. Pack the mixture in a freezer with ice and coarse sea salt.

  3. Let it stand for three hours to freeze.

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 + maple syruptop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together607 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Egg + maple syruptop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,156 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Heavy cream
Whipped to trap air, giving the mousse its light, airy body.
Egg yolks
Emulsify with the syrup and add richness and a smooth, custard-like texture.
Maple syrup
Provides the sweetness and maple flavor that defines the dish.

The step that matters

Slowly stir the egg yolk mixture into the whipped cream.. Adding the yolk mixture too quickly or stirring hard deflates the whipped cream, losing the air that makes the mousse light. Gentle folding keeps the foam intact.

“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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