Why it works: Almond and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,655 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓
Lemon Cream
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Blanch and chop the almonds.
In a bowl, combine the chopped almonds and heavy cream.
Whip the mixture until it thickens and sweeten to taste.
Finish and serve
Add the sherry wine and lemon juice, mixing well.
Serve in glasses.
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.
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Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together5,655 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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Almond + sherrytop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together517 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
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Wine + lemontop 13% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together6,157 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Almond + creamtop 16% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together5,130 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).
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Sherry + lemontop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together3,273 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Almonds
- Add body and a nutty texture to the cream.
- Heavy cream
- Provides fat and richness, and whips into the base of the dish.
- Sherry wine
- Adds aroma and a mellow, fruity flavour.
- Lemon juice
- Adds acidity that brightens the sweet, rich cream.
The step that matters
Whip until it thickens. Cream whips because fat globules trap air as they are beaten. Stopping too early leaves it runny, while overbeating turns it grainy or buttery, so watch closely as it thickens.
Swap the lemon
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, cream, sherry, wine):
- Vanillafits better
- Strawberryfits better
- Figfits better
- Lemonthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against almond, cream, sherry, wine. 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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