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Raspberries Iced

Raspberries coated in egg white and powdered sugar, then dried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Raspberries Iced

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the coating

  1. Beat the egg white until frothy.

  2. Stir in the cold water.

Coat and dry

  1. Dip each raspberry into the egg white mixture, then drain.

  2. Roll the raspberries in powdered sugar.

  3. Place them on paper to dry for 6 to 8 hours.

Serve

  1. Arrange the dried raspberries with other fruits in a dessert dish.

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Egg white
Forms a thin, sticky film that helps the sugar cling to the raspberries.
Powdered sugar
Dries into a crisp, sweet, frosted-looking coating on the outside of the fruit.
Fresh raspberries
Provide the tart fruit centre that the sweet coating surrounds.

The step that matters

Drying the coated raspberries. Drying for the full 6 to 8 hours lets the egg white set into a crisp shell. If the berries stay damp, the sugar dissolves and the coating turns sticky or weeps.

“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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