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Raspberry Cream

A chilled raspberry cream made by sieving raspberries, mixing with cream, sweetening, frothing, and garnishing with a flower.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Raspberry Cream

Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Raspberry Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the raspberries

  1. Rub raspberries or raspberry jam through a fine sieve to remove seeds.

  2. Mix the strained raspberries with cream.

  3. Sweeten with sugar to your taste.

Froth and serve

  1. Pour into a stone jug and froth with a chocolate mill.

  2. Spoon the froth onto a fine sieve.

  3. In a deep dish or punch bowl, pour the remaining cream and top with the froth.

  4. Garnish with a light flower in the center.

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 + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Raspberry + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Raspberries
Provide the main flavour and colour, with the seeds strained out.
Cream
Adds richness and body, and its fat helps the froth hold its shape.
Sugar
Sweetens the tart raspberry flavour, to taste.

The step that matters

Frothing with the chocolate mill. Cream must be agitated enough to trap air and form a stable froth, but over-whipping turns it grainy and greasy. Stop once it holds soft peaks so the froth stays light on top of the liquid cream.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits about as well
  3. Raspberrythe original
  4. Raisinfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar. 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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