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Chocolate Creams

A sweet treat made by boiling sugar, water, and milk, then forming into balls and dipping in melted chocolate.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and tea work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 738 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Chocolate Creams

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Combine 2 cups of granulated sugar and 3 tablespoons of water in a tea cup.

  2. Fill the cup with milk and boil for 20 minutes.

Shape and coat

  1. Stir the mixture until it cools enough to handle.

  2. Roll the mixture into balls.

  3. Drop the balls into melted chocolate.

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.

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 + teatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together738 recipes

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

  2. Tea + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Milk + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

Sugar and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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

Granulated sugar
Forms the sweet, thick base that sets firm as the mixture cools and firms.
Milk
Adds creaminess and moisture, and its proteins and sugars help the mixture thicken as it boils.
Melted chocolate
Forms a sweet, rich outer coating that sets firm once the balls cool.

The step that matters

Stir the mixture until it cools enough to handle. Stirring as the mixture cools keeps it smooth and evenly thickened. Rolling it while still too hot can leave it sticky and hard to shape.

“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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