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Coffee Frappe

A frozen coffee drink made with coffee, cream, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Coffee Frappe

Ingredients

Directions

Make the coffee base

  1. Caramelize half of the sugar.

  2. Blend the caramelized sugar with the coffee.

Make the cream

  1. Beat the cream until stiff, then blend it with the remaining sugar.

Freeze and serve

  1. Combine the coffee mixture with the cream mixture.

  2. Freeze until it is barely pourable.

  3. Serve in glasses.

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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Coffee + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  3. Coffee + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,344 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Whipped to stiffness, it traps air and gives the frappe a light, creamy body.
Sugar
Caramelized portion adds deep flavour; the rest sweetens the cream and softens the ice crystals.
Coffee
Provides the main coffee flavour and liquid base that freezes into the frappe.

The step that matters

Freeze until it is barely pourable. Freezing stops once the mixture is slushy; if left too long it turns solid and icy. Sugar lowers the freezing point, so the mixture stays softer than plain coffee ice, and checking early keeps the texture smooth.

“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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