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Another Cream Filling

A sweet cream filling made with powdered sugar, hot water, egg white, raisins, walnuts, and coconut.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 606 recipes. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

Another Cream Filling

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine powdered sugar and hot water in a saucepan and let them simmer.

  2. Beat the egg white until stiff peaks form, then mix it with the cooled sugar mixture.

  3. Fold in the chopped raisins, chopped walnuts, and grated coconut.

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. Walnut + coconuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together606 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  2. Raisin + walnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together647 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

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

  4. Raisin + coconuttop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together183 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sugar + eggtop 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

Powdered sugar
Provides sweetness and, dissolved in hot water, forms the base of the filling.
Egg white
Whipped to stiff peaks, it adds lightness and structure to the filling.
Chopped walnuts
Add crunch and a toasty, nutty flavour that contrasts with the soft cream.
Chopped raisins
Add chewy texture and concentrated sweetness throughout the filling.

The step that matters

Beating the egg white to stiff peaks. Egg white must be whipped to stiff peaks and mixed with the sugar mixture only after it has cooled. Warm sugar syrup can deflate the foam, and under-whipped whites will not give the filling its light structure.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, egg, walnut, coconut):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Datesfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, walnut, coconut. 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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