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Sago Cream

A dessert made by boiling sago, adding cream, mixing with beaten egg, and sweetening with sugar and flavoring.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Sago Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sago

  1. Boil the sago in water until it forms a jelly.

  2. Add the cream and bring to a boil again.

Finish the cream

  1. Beat the egg lightly and pour the boiling sago mixture over it.

  2. Add sugar and flavoring to taste.

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

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

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

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

  3. Cream + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 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

Sago
Its starch swells in boiling water and thickens the liquid into a jelly.
Cream
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, creamy mouthfeel.
Egg
Adds body and richness, helping the finished mixture thicken and set.

The step that matters

Pouring the boiling sago mixture over the beaten egg. Hot liquid can scramble or curdle raw egg if poured in too fast. Pouring slowly while whisking gently warms the egg gradually, so it blends smoothly and thickens evenly.

“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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