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Strawberry Sauce

A sauce made from mashed strawberries, almond butter, powdered sugar, and egg white.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,679 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Strawberry Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix a little strawberry juice with the almond butter until it resembles thick cream.

  2. Add the powdered sugar and beat very lightly.

  3. Fold in the beaten egg white.

  4. Just before serving, gently mix in the mashed strawberries.

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. Almond + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,679 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  2. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  3. Almond + eggtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,645 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Almond butter
Provides fat and richness, giving the sauce a thick, creamy body and nutty flavour.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and bulk, thickening the base while dissolving smoothly into the fat.
Egg white
Whips into a foam that lightens the sauce and gives it a airy, soft texture.
Mashed strawberries
Supply the fruit flavour, tartness and colour that define the sauce.

The step that matters

Folding in the beaten egg white. Folding gently keeps the air bubbles in the beaten egg white intact. Stirring or beating hard collapses the foam, so the sauce turns dense instead of light.

Swap the almond

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

  1. Pecansfits about as well
  2. Almondthe original
  3. Chestnutfits about as well
  4. Milletfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg. 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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