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Strawberry Cream

A chilled strawberry dessert made with crushed strawberries, powdered sugar, milk, cream, and a pinch of sea salt.

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 ↓

Strawberry Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the strawberries

  1. Remove the stems from the strawberries and crush them slightly.

  2. Cover the strawberries with powdered sugar and let them stand for 3 to 4 hours.

  3. Rub the mixture through a fine sieve.

Make the cream and serve

  1. Stir together the milk and cream, sweeten slightly, and warm the mixture.

  2. Stir in the strawberry pulp and whisk until combined.

  3. Fill small china or glass cups with the mixture and serve on a napkin if needed.

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).

  2. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

Sugar and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the main flavor, color, and fruit pulp for the cream.
Powdered sugar
Draws juice out of the strawberries and sweetens the fruit.
Milk
Thins the cream and gives a lighter, smoother body.
Cream
Adds richness and fat for a smooth, velvety texture.

The step that matters

Rub the mixture through a fine sieve. Pressing the macerated strawberries through a fine sieve removes seeds and fibrous bits, leaving a smooth pulp that keeps the cream silky rather than gritty.

“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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