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Maple Mousse

A chilled dessert made with maple syrup, eggs, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Maple syrup and cream 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

Make the custard

  1. Heat the maple syrup in a double boiler.

  2. Beat the eggs until well mixed and slowly pour the hot syrup over them.

  3. Return the mixture to the double boiler and cook until it thickens, stirring carefully.

  4. Cool the mixture and gently fold in the whipped cream.

Freeze

  1. Pour the mixture into a mold and pack it in ice and salt.

  2. Cover the mold with a strip of muslin dipped in butter or paraffin.

  3. Let it stand for three hours.

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. Maple syrup + creamtop 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. Maple syrup + eggtop 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

Eggs
Their proteins set when gently cooked, thickening the syrup into a custard base.
Double cream
Its fat, whipped and folded in, gives the mousse a light, airy, creamy texture.
Maple syrup
Provides the main sweetness and maple flavour, and thins the custard while it is hot.

The step that matters

Cooking the egg and syrup mixture until it thickens. Egg proteins set at moderate heat and can curdle if overheated. Stirring carefully over a double boiler keeps the custard smooth and thickened rather than grainy.

“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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