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Chebsb Cream Iced

A chilled custard made from cream, sugar, almonds, orange flower water, lemon peel, and egg yolks.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Chebsb Cream Iced

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Boil the cream in a saucepan.

  2. Add the sugar, pounded almonds, orange flower water, and grated lemon peel; boil for a few minutes.

  3. Remove from heat and stir in the beaten egg yolks until well mixed.

  4. Strain the mixture through a sieve into an icing pot.

Freeze and serve

  1. Chill until it is well iced, then work it to put into cheese molds.

  2. Ice it again and serve.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Almond + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Provides richness and a smooth, creamy body to the frozen mixture.
Egg yolks
Add richness and help thicken and emulsify the custard base.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and lowers its freezing point for a softer texture.
Sweet almonds
Add nutty flavour and body once pounded into the base.

The step that matters

Stir in the egg yolks off the heat. Adding beaten yolks to a very hot mixture can scramble them. Removing the pan from heat first and stirring steadily lets the yolks thicken the base smoothly without curdling.

Swap the almond

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

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Pistachiofits about as well
  3. Chestnutfits less well
  4. Walnutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, orange, lemon, egg. 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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