Skip to main content
Dessert

Solid Raspberry

Solid Raspberry is a chilled dessert made from raspberry jelly or fresh raspberries, powdered sugar, lemon juice, isinglass or gelatin, water, and solid cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Gelatin and cream match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,628 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Solid Raspberry

Ingredients

Directions

Make the raspberry mixture

  1. Dissolve the raspberry jelly or rub the fresh raspberries through a sieve.

  2. Add the powdered sugar and lemon juice, stirring until almost cool.

  3. Dissolve the isinglass or gelatin in the teacup of water and add to the mixture, stirring for a few minutes.

  4. Gently mix in the solid cream.

Set

  1. Pour the mixture into a damp earthenware mold.

  2. Allow to set for about twelve 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.

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. Gelatin + creamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Sugar + gelatintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

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

  5. Raspberry + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Raspberries
Provide the main flavour and colour of the dish.
Isinglass or gelatin
Sets the liquid into a firm, sliceable body as it cools.
Solid cream
Adds richness and a softer, creamy texture to the set dessert.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the mixture and balances the tartness of the raspberries.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the raspberry flavour.

The step that matters

Add the isinglass or gelatin without letting it clump. Gelatin must be fully dissolved in water before it joins the mixture, then stirred in evenly. Undissolved specks won't set and cause weak or grainy spots in the finished dessert.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (raspberry, sugar, gelatin, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against raspberry, sugar, gelatin, cream. 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.

You might also like

Lemon CakeLemon Cake228 recipesRaspberry JamRaspberry Jam150 recipesLemon IceLemon Ice147 recipesLemon SherbetLemon Sherbet103 recipes