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Raspberry Cream

A chilled raspberry‑flavored cream dessert made with cream, sugar, raspberry juice, milk, isinglass, and brandy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 raspberry juice

  1. Mash the raspberries gently and let them drain.

  2. Sprinkle a little sugar over the raspberries to produce more juice.

Make the cream

  1. Combine the raspberry juice with cream and sweeten to taste.

  2. If desired, add milk to prevent curdling.

  3. Boil isinglass shavings in 3 pints of mixed cream and milk for 15 minutes until melted.

  4. Strain the mixture into a bowl and let it cool.

  5. Stir in raspberry juice or syrup, sweeten, and add brandy.

  6. Whisk until three parts cold, then pour into a mold and chill until set.

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

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

  2. Raspberry + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,014 recipes

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

  3. Raspberry + brandytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together235 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol (freshly cut grass green and herbaceous notes).

  4. Milk + brandytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,738 recipes

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

  5. Cream + brandytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,635 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

Isinglass
Dissolves when boiled and sets the cream into a firm, sliceable gel as it chills.
Cream
Provides richness and a smooth, creamy body to the set dessert.
Raspberry juice
Supplies the main flavour and pink colour to the dessert.
Sugar
Sweetens the dessert and draws more juice out of the raspberries.

The step that matters

Adding milk to prevent curdling. Raspberry juice is acidic, and acid can make cream curdle when they are combined. Adding milk, as the method suggests when desired, helps keep the mixture smooth.

Swap the raspberry

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, milk, brandy. 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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