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Raspberry Cream

A raspberry syrup mixed with cream, served chilled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Raspberry Cream

Why it works: Raspberry and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,109 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Raspberry Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the syrup

  1. Gather raspberries on a dry day, mash them, and strain through a jelly bag to obtain the juice.

  2. In a saucepan, combine the raspberry juice and pounded sugar, stirring until the sugar completely dissolves.

  3. Bottle the mixture in pint and half-pint bottles, filling them to the neck.

Serve

  1. When ready to serve, mix the raspberry syrup with rich cream and additional sugar, then whisk until thick.

  2. Serve in a glass dish or custard cups.

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. Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

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

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Raspberry juice
Provides the main raspberry flavour and colour, and the liquid base of the syrup.
Pounded loaf sugar
Sweetens the juice and helps preserve the syrup when it is bottled.
Rich cream
Adds fat and body, and whisks into a thick, creamy texture.

The step that matters

Whisking the cream with the syrup. Cream thickens as its fat globules trap air and link together when whisked. Whisking too long can turn it grainy or butter, so stop once it holds soft peaks and is thick.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against raspberry, sugar, cream. 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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