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Egg Drink

A beverage made with egg whites, cream, lemon juice, nuts, and raw wheat.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Nuts and wheat work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 57 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Egg Drink

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Beat the egg whites until frothy.

  2. Gradually beat in the cream.

  3. Add the lemon juice and mix well.

  4. Serve with a few nuts and raw wheat for nourishment.

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. Nuts + wheattop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Lemon + wheattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together585 recipes

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

  3. Cream + nutstop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together886 recipes

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

  4. Egg + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  5. Egg + wheattop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

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

Egg and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 44,316 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

Egg whites
Whipped into a foam that gives the drink its light, airy structure.
Cream
Adds richness and a smoother, fuller body to the drink.
Lemon juice
Adds tartness that brightens the sweetness and richness of the cream.

The step that matters

Gradually beat in the cream. Adding the cream slowly, while still beating, lets it blend into the egg white foam without deflating it. Pouring it in all at once can collapse the foam and leave the drink thin.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cream, nuts, wheat. 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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