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Cream and Brandy

A simple drink made by mixing cherry brandy with cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Cherry brandy and cream 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. Cherry brandy + creamtop 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

Cherry brandy
Adds a sweet, fruity, boozy flavour to the cream.
Cream
Provides the rich fat base that carries the brandy's flavour and gives a smooth texture.

“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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