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Apple Snow

A dessert made from roasted apple pulp whipped with egg white and powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Apple Snow

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pulp

  1. Roast the apples until soft.

  2. Pass the pulp through a sieve.

  3. Measure the pulp to match the weight of one egg.

Make the snow

  1. In a bowl, beat the apple pulp, powdered sugar, and egg white until very white and fluffy.

  2. Add ground alum and beat until fully combined.

Serve

  1. Lightly pile the mixture in a dish.

  2. Serve with cream or custard if desired.

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. Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

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

  2. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Apple + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,461 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Apple and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

White apples
Provide the bulk and tart apple flavor of the snow.
Egg white
Whipped into a foam that gives the snow its light, airy structure.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the snow and helps stabilize the beaten foam.
Ground alum
Acidic salt that helps stabilize the whipped egg white foam.

The step that matters

Beating the pulp, sugar and egg white. Beating until the mixture is thick and fluffy traps air in the egg white foam, which sets the light texture. Under-beating leaves it dense and runny.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar. 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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