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Raspberry and Currant Cream

A chilled cream made from mashed raspberries, currants, sugar, and sweet cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Raspberry and Currant Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the fruit base

  1. Mash the black raspberries and red currants with the sugar.

  2. Let the mixture stand for several hours.

  3. Strain off the juice and pour it into a freezer.

Finish the cream

  1. When partly frozen, add the sweetened, flavored, and 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.

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

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

  2. Red currant + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,156 recipes

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

  3. Red currant + creamtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together247 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

Black raspberries
Provide the main fruit flavor and juice for the base.
Red currants
Add tart acidity that balances the sweetness of the sugar.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and softens its tartness while it stands.
Sweet cream
Adds richness and a smooth, creamy texture to the frozen dessert.

The step that matters

Adding the cream when partly frozen. If the base is fully frozen or too liquid, the cream will not blend evenly. Partly frozen fruit juice has enough body to hold whipped cream without it deflating or turning icy.

Swap the red currant

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Red currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream. 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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