Name: Madeira Wine Sherbet
Ingredients: 1 cup Madeira wine; 1 egg white, beaten

Why it works: Madeira wine and egg work together. They rank in the top 38% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 445 recipes. The science ↓

Madeira Wine Sherbet

Ingredients

1 cup Madeira wine
1 egg white, beaten

Directions

In a bowl, mix the Madeira wine with the beaten egg white.
Freeze the mixture until it reaches a sherbet consistency.

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.

Madeira wine + eggtop 38% of all pairs

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Cooked together445 recipes

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What each ingredient does

Madeira wine: Provides the main flavour and sugar-based softness that keeps the sherbet from freezing rock-hard.
Egg white: Adds foam and body, giving the sherbet a lighter, smoother texture.

“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.