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Raspberries, Iced for Dessert

A dessert of raspberries coated with egg white, water, and powdered sugar, then dried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Raspberries, Iced for Dessert

Ingredients

Directions

Make the coating

  1. Whisk the egg white.

  2. Add the cold water to the whisked egg white.

Coat and dry

  1. Dip each raspberry in the mixture.

  2. Drain the raspberries.

  3. Roll the raspberries in powdered sugar.

  4. Place them on paper to dry for 6 to 8 hours.

Serve

  1. Arrange the dried raspberries with other fruits in a dessert dish.

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. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg white
Forms a thin coating that binds the powdered sugar to each raspberry.
Powdered sugar
Dries into a crisp, sweet outer layer on the raspberries.

The step that matters

Draining the raspberries before rolling. Excess liquid left on the berries keeps the sugar from sticking evenly and can make the coating patchy or wet, so drain them well first.

“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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