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Sherey Flip

A chilled dessert made by frothing sherry, lemon juice, sugar, cream, and almonds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar 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 ↓

Sherey Flip

fills twelve ordinary custard glasses

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Blanch and chop the almonds.

  2. Combine the chopped almonds and cream in a jug.

  3. In another jug, mix the sherry, lemon juice, and enough sugar to sweeten.

Serve

  1. Pour rapidly between the two jugs until well frothed.

  2. Pour into individual glasses, enough to fill twelve ordinary custard glasses.

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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Almond + sherrytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together517 recipes

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

  4. Cream + almondtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  5. Sherry + lemontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked 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

Cream
Provides the rich body and fat that the frothed mixture holds.
Sherry
Adds the main flavour and sweetness-balancing aroma to the drink.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sherry and balances the sweetness.
Almonds
Contribute nutty flavour and a fine texture to the cream mixture.

The step that matters

Pour rapidly between the two jugs until well frothed. Pouring from height and quickly mixes air into the cream, creating a foam. Pouring slowly would leave the mixture flat and unfrothed.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, almond, sherry, sugar. 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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