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Iced Souffle a LA Byeocht

A chilled dessert made with sugar syrup, raspberry juice, lemon, maraschino liqueur, egg yolks, chocolate drops, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Iced Souffle a LA Byeocht

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Mix the sugar syrup and egg yolks in a warm bowl.

  2. Strain the mixture, then add raspberry juice, lemon juice, and maraschino.

  3. Whisk until creamy.

  4. Remove from hot water and whisk for 10 minutes.

Finish and freeze

  1. Fold in chocolate drops and whipped cream.

  2. Lightly fill a mold and freeze for 2 hours.

  3. Cover the surface with ladyfingers or sponge cake that have been dried and rolled.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately.

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. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

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

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

  4. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  5. Raspberry + chocolatetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together457 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

Egg yolks
Thicken and enrich the base, giving it a creamy, custard-like body when whisked over warm water.
Sugar syrup
Sweetens the base and lowers its freezing point, keeping the frozen soufflé soft rather than rock hard.
Whipped cream
Adds air and fat, giving the frozen mixture a light, smooth texture.
Raspberry juice
Provides fruit flavour, sweetness and acidity to the base.
Chocolate drops
Melt-free flavour pieces that add richness and a contrast in texture as the dessert freezes.

The step that matters

Whisking the yolk base over hot water. Egg yolks thicken as they warm, but if they get too hot they scramble into lumps. Keep the heat gentle and whisk constantly so the base becomes smooth and thick before it is folded with cream and frozen.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, syrup, raspberry, egg, chocolate, 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.

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