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Cream Candy

A confection made from stiffened egg whites and yolks mixed with cream, lemon or vanilla, rolled and cut into squares.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Cream Candy

Why it works: Sugar and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Cream Candy

Ingredients

Directions

Make the white layer

  1. Beat the egg white to a stiff froth.

  2. Mix the egg white with 2 tablespoons of cream, 1 teaspoon of lemon extract, and enough pulverized sugar to form a dough.

  3. Roll the mixture into a thin cake.

Make the yellow layer

  1. Beat the egg yolk well.

  2. Mix the egg yolk with 2 tablespoons of cream, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, and enough pulverized sugar to form a dough.

  3. Roll this mixture into a thin cake.

Assemble and finish

  1. Layer the white cake on top of the yellow cake and cut into squares.

  2. If desired, place nut meats on top of the 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. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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

  3. Lemon + vanillatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Cream + vanillatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Egg white
Whipped to a stiff froth, it gives the candy an airy, light structure.
Egg yolk
Adds richness and a yellow color to the second layer.
Pulverized sugar
Sweetens the candy and, mixed in, firms the cream and egg into a dough.
Cream
Adds moisture and softness so the mixture can be rolled.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cream, sugar, vanilla, meat):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cream, sugar, vanilla, meat. 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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