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Raspberry and Chocolate Filling

A light, creamy filling made from raspberry jam, sweet chocolate, and beaten egg white.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and chocolate work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 457 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Raspberry and Chocolate Filling

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Beat the egg white until very stiff.

  2. Gradually add the raspberry jam while beating constantly.

  3. Stir in the finely grated sweet chocolate.

  4. When the mixture is light and creamy, spread it between layers of cake.

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. Raspberry + chocolatetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together457 recipes

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

  2. Chocolate + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  3. Raspberry + eggtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg white
Whipped to stiff foam, it gives the filling a light, airy, creamy texture.
Raspberry jam
Adds sweetness, fruity acidity and moisture, loosening the whipped egg white into a spreadable filling.
Sweet chocolate
Adds rich flavour and body, firming the filling as it is stirred in.

The step that matters

Gradually add the raspberry jam while beating constantly. Adding the jam slowly while beating keeps the egg white foam from collapsing. Dumping it in at once deflates the stiff foam and leaves the filling dense and watery.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Raspberrythe original
  4. Datesfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, 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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