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Maple Sauce for Ice Cream

A maple syrup sauce thickened and flavored with cream and salt, served hot over ice cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Maple syrup and cream work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 607 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Maple Sauce for Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Boil the maple syrup in a saucepan until thick.

  2. Add the cream and salt.

  3. Cook until it forms a soft ball in cold water.

Serve

  1. Pour the sauce over the ice cream.

  2. Keep the sauce hot by placing the dish in hot water 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.

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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. Maple syrup + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together607 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Maple syrup
Provides the sweetness and maple flavour, and thickens as its water boils off.
Cream
Adds fat for a smoother, richer texture and a softer set.

The step that matters

Cooking to the soft ball stage. The soft ball stage means the sugar concentration is high enough to set softly as it cools. Cooking too little leaves the sauce thin, while cooking too far makes it stiff once cool.

“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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