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Cream Candy

A sweet confection made from coffee sugar, milk, butter, raisins, and nuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Cream Candy

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Cream Candy

Ingredients

Directions

Make the candy

  1. In a saucepan, combine the sugar, milk, and butter.

  2. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture forms a soft ball when dropped in cold water.

  3. Remove the pan from heat.

  4. Place the pan in cold water until the candy is partly cool.

  5. Beat the mixture until it is creamy.

Finish and cut

  1. Fold in the raisins and nuts.

  2. Mold the candy into a pan.

  3. Cut the candy into squares.

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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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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Walnut + nutstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Coffee + nutstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together105 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Raisin + nutstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Coffee + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Provides sweetness and, when cooked, the structure that sets the candy.
Milk
Adds moisture and creaminess to the candy base.
Butter
Adds fat for a smooth, rich texture.

The step that matters

Beat the mixture until it is creamy. Beating while the candy is partly cooled encourages fine sugar crystals, giving a smooth texture rather than a grainy or hard one.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (coffee, sugar, milk, walnut, butter, nuts):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against coffee, sugar, milk, walnut, butter, nuts. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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