Why it works: Egg and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 39% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,895 recipes. The science ↓
Strawberry Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Prepare a hard sauce.
Whip the egg white until stiff peaks form.
Combine
Fold the whipped egg white into the hard sauce.
Add the mashed strawberries and mix well.
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.
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Egg + saucetop 39% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together10,895 recipes
Egg and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,895 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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What each ingredient does
- Egg white
- Whipped into stiff peaks, it traps air that keeps the sauce light and airy.
- Strawberries
- Mashed, they add fruit flavor, color and moisture to the sauce.
The step that matters
Fold the whipped egg white into the hard sauce. Folding gently with a spatula keeps the air bubbles in the whipped egg white. Stirring vigorously would deflate them, leaving the sauce dense instead of light.
“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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