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Iceb Raspberries for Dessert

Raspberries are dipped in beaten egg white and cold water, rolled in powdered sugar, and dried for dessert.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Iceb Raspberries for Dessert

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the raspberries

  1. Remove the hulls from the raspberries.

  2. Check the raspberries for insects.

Coat the raspberries

  1. In a bowl, beat together the egg white and cold water.

  2. Dip each raspberry in the egg mixture.

  3. Roll each raspberry in powdered sugar.

  4. Place the coated raspberries on sheets of white paper, ensuring they are not touching.

Dry and serve

  1. Allow them to dry for 5 to 6 hours in a cool, dry place.

  2. Serve as dessert when dry.

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Egg white
Forms a thin, dry coating that holds the powdered sugar to each raspberry.
Powdered sugar
Dissolves slightly on the egg coating and dries into a crisp, sweet shell.
Large raspberries
Provide the fresh fruit core that the sugar shell surrounds.

The step that matters

Allowing the raspberries to dry fully. Egg white and sugar only set into a crisp shell once moisture evaporates. Raspberries left touching or in a humid place stay sticky and can weep, so drying time and spacing matter.

“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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