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Wine Cream

A creamy dessert made by boiling cream, adding white wine, nutmeg, orange flower water, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,746 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Wine Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cream

  1. Heat 1 quart of cream in a saucepan until it boils.

  2. Slowly stir in 6 tablespoons of white wine, ensuring the cream does not curdle.

Flavour and serve

  1. Season with nutmeg and orange flower water to taste.

  2. Sweeten the mixture to your preference.

  3. Let the mixture cool before serving.

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. Nutmeg + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Cream + nutmegtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. White wine + orangetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together730 recipes

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

  5. Cream + white winetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,760 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Provides richness and the body of the finished cream.
White wine
Adds acidity and a fruity flavour that cuts the cream's richness.
Sugar
Sweetens the cream and balances the acidity of the wine.

The step that matters

Adding the wine to the boiling cream. Acid from the wine can cause hot cream to curdle, so it must be stirred in slowly to keep the cream smooth.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, white wine, nutmeg, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, white wine, nutmeg, sugar. 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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