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Fruit Foam Dessert

A dessert made by dissolving gelatin in fruit juice, then folding in beaten egg whites to form a firm foam.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Red raspberry and egg work together. They rank in the top 31% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 31 recipes. Both carry acetoin, which smells butter, cream. The science ↓

Fruit Foam Dessert

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the gelatin

  1. Soak the gelatin in cold water until soft.

  2. Heat the fruit juice to boiling point.

  3. Pour the hot juice over the soaked gelatin.

  4. Stir until the gelatin is completely dissolved.

  5. Strain the mixture.

  6. Let it harden.

Make the foam

  1. Beat the egg whites to a stiff froth.

  2. Stir the beaten whites into the thickened gelatin.

  3. Beat thoroughly for 15 minutes until the mixture is a solid foam that retains its shape.

  4. Turn the mixture into molds that have been wet with cold water.

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. Red raspberry + eggtop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatine
Sets the juice into a firm structure that holds the foam's shape.
Egg whites
Whipped into a stiff foam that gives the dessert its airy, light texture.
Fruit juice
Provides the flavour and colour of the dessert.

The step that matters

Beat the egg whites to a stiff froth. Egg whites must be whipped until stiff and then folded into the gelatin mixture gently enough to keep the air. Under-beaten whites will not hold the foam, and the dessert will collapse or stay runny.

“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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