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Plombiere De Framboise- -raspberry Plombiere

A frozen raspberry dessert made with raspberry pulp, sugar, water, whipped cream, and ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Plombiere De Framboise- -raspberry Plombiere

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Combine raspberry pulp, sugar, and water in a bowl until it weighs 24 degrees.

  2. Freeze the mixture until it is half frozen.

Finish and freeze

  1. Fold in the whipped cream gently.

  2. Transfer the mixture to a mold, cover tightly, and pack in ice and salt for 1 hour.

  3. Unmold and garnish with small cakes.

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. Raspberry + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

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

  3. Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 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

Raspberry pulp
Provides the main raspberry flavor and most of the liquid base of the dessert.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and lowers its freezing point, keeping it soft and scoopable.
Whipped cream
Adds fat and air, giving the frozen dessert a light, creamy texture.

The step that matters

Folding in the whipped cream gently. Whipped cream is full of trapped air. Stirring it vigorously knocks that air out, so the finished frozen dessert becomes dense rather than light and creamy.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits about as well
  3. Raspberrythe original
  4. Raisinfits about as well

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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