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Gooseberry Cream

A sweet custard‑like dessert made from gooseberries, sugar, water, boiled custard, and topped with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Gooseberry Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the gooseberries

  1. Clean the gooseberries and place them in a saucepan with their weight in sugar and a little water.

  2. Stew the gooseberries until soft, then pass the pulp through a sieve.

Finish and serve

  1. Once cooled, mix in enough rich boiled custard to achieve a thick cream consistency.

  2. Transfer the mixture to a glass dish and top with whipped cream.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Green gooseberries
Provide the tart fruit pulp that forms the base of the cream.
Loaf sugar
Sweetens the tart gooseberries and helps the pulp stew to a soft texture.
Rich boiled custard
Adds richness and body, thickening the pulp into a cream consistency.
Whipped cream
Adds a light, airy topping with fat for a smooth mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Passing the stewed pulp through a sieve. Stewed gooseberries must be fully soft so the pulp passes smoothly; skins and seeds left behind keep the cream from being silky. Cooling before adding custard prevents the eggs in the custard from curdling.

“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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