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MiLLE Fruit Cream

A chilled cream dessert made with preserved fruits, orange peel, isinglass, sugar, and heavy cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Apricot and plum match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 284 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

MiLLE Fruit Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine all preserved fruits and orange peel in a bowl.

  2. Boil isinglass in water for 30 minutes, then add sugar and whisk until nearly cold.

Set and serve

  1. Fold in whipped cream until well mixed.

  2. Pour mixture into a mold and surround with ice to set.

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. Apricot + plumtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Apricot + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together377 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + plumtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together147 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methyl-1-butanol (fusel, malty).

  4. Ginger + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,833 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Heavy cream
Whipped, it adds richness and a light, airy body to the set cream.
Isinglass
A gelatin-like setting agent that firms the mixture as it cools.
Preserved fruits
Supply concentrated fruit flavor and sweetness throughout the cream.
Sugar
Sweetens the base and balances the tartness of the preserved fruit.

The step that matters

Whisking the isinglass mixture until nearly cold. If the isinglass is added to cream while still warm, or folded in too early, it may not set evenly. Cooling it to nearly cold before folding in the cream lets it thicken to a stable, light structure.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apricot, ginger, pineapple, plum, orange, sugar, cream):

  1. Peachfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apricot, ginger, pineapple, plum, orange, sugar, 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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