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Berry Sauce

Berry sauce made from mashed berries, sugar, butter, powdered sugar, and egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Berry Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the berries

  1. Place the berries in a bowl.

  2. Add 1 tablespoon of granulated sugar.

  3. Mash the berries to release their juices.

  4. Set the bowl in a warm place.

Make the sauce

  1. Beat the butter until creamy.

  2. Mix in the powdered sugar and the beaten egg white.

  3. Just before serving, add the mashed berries or their juice to the mixture.

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. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Berries
Provide the main fruit flavor, color, and juice that loosens the sauce.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, creamy texture to the base.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the sauce and blends into a smooth, fine texture.
Egg
Adds richness and helps bind the creamy base together.

The step that matters

Just before serving, add the mashed berries or their juice to the mixture.. Adding the fruit last keeps its fresh flavor and bright color strongest. Juice added too early can thin the creamy base and dull the sauce's texture.

“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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