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Whipped Cream Pie

A pie with a baked crust topped with whipped cream and jelly garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Whipped Cream Pie

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the crust

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Prepare a pie crust and perforate it to prevent blistering, then bake until golden.

Make and fill

  1. In a bowl, combine very cold heavy cream and sweeten with powdered sugar.

  2. Add your preferred flavoring and whip the cream to stiff peaks.

  3. Spread the whipped cream over the baked pie crust.

  4. Garnish with small bits of jelly on top of the cream.

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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Heavy cream
Whipped into stiff peaks to form the light, airy filling structure.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the cream and adds a little body to the whipped filling.
Pie crust
Forms the baked base that holds the whipped cream filling.

The step that matters

Whipping the cream to stiff peaks. Cream must be very cold and whipped just until stiff. Under-whipping leaves the filling runny, while over-whipping turns it grainy and can cause it to separate as fat particles clump together.

“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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