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Apple Cream

A dessert made by grinding apples with lemon juice, pine nuts, sweet cream, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pine match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 480 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Apple Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut and grind the apples.

  2. Mash the apples smooth with the lemon juice.

  3. Grind the pine nuts and add to the mixture.

Finish

  1. Beat until creamy.

  2. Add sweet cream and spices to taste.

  3. Set aside or use immediately.

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. Lemon + pinetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together480 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pine + nutstop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15 recipes

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

  3. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Apple + pinetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Nuts + creamtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together886 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Provide the main body and fruity flavor of the cream.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the apple flavor and slows browning.
Pine nuts
Add richness and a creamy, nutty texture when ground into the mixture.
Sweet cream
Adds fat and smoothness, making the cream rich and soft.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, pine, nuts, cream):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, pine, nuts, cream. 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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