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Hot Raspberry Charlotte

A baked dessert of raspberries layered with crumbs and eggs, finished with butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Hot Raspberry Charlotte

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare and layer

  1. Butter a pie dish and sprinkle with bread crumbs.

  2. Layer raspberries in the dish and sprinkle with sugar.

  3. Repeat layers of crumbs, raspberries, and sugar until the dish is full.

Bake

  1. Beat the eggs with the milk and pour into the dish.

  2. Scatter small pieces of butter on top and bake at 350°F (175°C) until set.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Raspberries
Provide the fruit flavor and moisture that soak into the crumbs as the dish bakes.
Bread crumbs
Form the structure of the dish and absorb the raspberry juice and custard.
Eggs
Set the milk mixture into a firm custard that holds the layers together.
Milk
Forms the liquid custard that moistens the crumbs and sets when baked.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the tartness of the raspberries.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, helping the top brown as it bakes.

The step that matters

Bake until just set. As the egg and milk mixture heats, the egg proteins set it into a custard. Baking only until it is set keeps the custard smooth and tender; overbaking can make it curdled or rubbery.

“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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