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Another Way to Make Mock Cream

A milk-based thickening agent made by whisking egg whites and yolk, heating with milk, and cooling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88,785 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Another Way to Make Mock Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Whisk the egg whites with the egg yolk.

  2. Stir the mixture into the milk.

  3. Heat on the stove, stirring until it begins to boil.

  4. Remove from heat and stir until it cools to lukewarm.

  5. Strain the mixture and place it in a cold location.

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. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 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

Egg whites
Set and thicken the custard as they cook, giving body to the mixture.
Egg yolk
Adds richness and emulsifies, helping the mixture turn smooth and creamy.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the egg proteins thicken as it heats.

The step that matters

Heating until it begins to boil. Egg proteins thicken with heat, but overheating can scramble them into lumps. Stirring constantly spreads heat evenly so the mixture thickens smoothly.

“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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