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Chocolate Soufflé

A chilled chocolate soufflé made with cocoa, cream, isinglass, and greased mold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cocoa and cream work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 304 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Chocolate Soufflé

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Strain the cream through a sieve into a bowl.

  2. Stir in the isinglass and the remaining ½ pint of well whipped cream.

  3. Mix all ingredients together thoroughly.

Set and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a greased mold.

  2. Chill the mold in ice until ready to 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.

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. Cocoa + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together304 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Whipped cream traps air and adds richness, giving the dessert a light, creamy texture.
Isinglass
A gelatin-like setting agent that firms the mixture as it cools.
Cocoa
Provides the chocolate flavour and brown colour.

The step that matters

Chill the mold in ice until ready to serve. The isinglass only firms the mixture when it is cold, so the mold must stay chilled long enough for the dessert to hold its shape.

“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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