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Strawberry Cream

A chilled dessert made from egg yolks, powdered sugar, red wine, strawberry juice, and folded egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Red wine and strawberry work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Strawberry Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cream

  1. In a bowl, stir together the egg yolks, powdered sugar, and red wine for about 10 minutes.

  2. Press the ripe strawberries through a sieve to obtain the strawberry juice and add it to the mixture.

  3. Set the mixture over low heat and stir until it boils.

Finish and serve

  1. Beat the egg whites until very stiff and gently fold them into the cream.

  2. Pour the mixture into glasses and serve cold.

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 wine + strawberrytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + strawberrytop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,060 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  4. Egg + strawberrytop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,509 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Sugar + red winetop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together864 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolks
Thicken the cream and give it a rich, smooth body as they cook.
Egg whites
Add airy volume and lightness when beaten stiff and folded in.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the cream and dissolves easily into the yolks.
Strawberry juice
Provides the main strawberry flavour and liquid to the cream.

The step that matters

Stirring the yolk mixture over low heat. Egg yolks thicken through gentle heat, but they can scramble if heated too fast. Stir constantly over low heat and watch for the mixture to thicken before it boils.

Swap the strawberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, red wine):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Strawberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, red wine. 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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