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Egg Junket with Whipped Cream

A custard made from milk, sugar, vanilla, eggs, and junket, served with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Egg Junket with Whipped Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the yolks and whites of 2 eggs separately until stiff.

  2. Heat 1 pint of milk to blood heat.

  3. Mix in ¼ cup sugar and ⅛ teaspoon vanilla.

Set and serve

  1. Pour the milk mixture over the beaten eggs.

  2. Add 2 tablespoons of junket and let stand without moving until cold.

  3. Serve with whipped cream.

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. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + junkettop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together82 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Junket + creamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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

Milk
Forms the liquid base that sets into a soft, tender custard.
Eggs
Add richness and structure, and the beaten whites give the set some lightness.
Junket
Rennet-based coagulant that causes the warm milk to set into a soft curd.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to the mild milk base.
Vanilla
Adds a gentle aroma that rounds out the dairy flavour.

The step that matters

Let the junket set without moving it. Junket sets the warm milk by coagulating its proteins into a delicate gel. Stirring or jostling the dish while it sets can break the forming curd, leaving a grainy or watery texture instead of a smooth, firm set.

“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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