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Cream and Brandy

A simple mixture of cream and cherry brandy served immediately.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Cream and cherry brandy work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 36 recipes. Both carry 2-heptanol, which smells bitter, floral. The science ↓

Cream and Brandy

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add the cherry brandy to the cream.

  2. Serve immediately.

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 + cherry brandytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Provides richness and a smooth, velvety mouthfeel that carries the brandy's flavour.
Cherry brandy
Adds sweet cherry aroma and a gentle alcoholic warmth to the cream.

“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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