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Edinboro' Cheese

A sweet cheese made with raspberry jelly, powdered sugar, and egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and egg 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 ↓

Edinboro' Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Make the paste

  1. In a bowl, combine raspberry jelly and powdered sugar.

  2. Add the egg whites and beat until well mixed and forms a stiff paste.

Serve

  1. Transfer the mixture to a dish and serve.

  2. For variation, mix in currant jelly or any other jelly.

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.

Explore the science

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. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  2. Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

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

  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

Raspberry jelly
Provides the fruity flavour and sweetness that give the paste its character.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves easily, helping the paste stay smooth.
Egg whites
Whipped into the mixture to give it a stiff, airy structure that holds its shape.

The step that matters

Beating the egg whites into a stiff paste. Egg whites must be beaten until well mixed and firm enough to hold shape. Under-beaten whites leave the paste loose and runny, while the sugar and jelly need thorough blending to avoid streaks.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, 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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