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Raspberry Cream

A chilled raspberry custard made with isinglass, jam, lemon juice, cream, and sugar.

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

  1. Dissolve the isinglass in the water as directed for Lemon Cream.

  2. Pass the raspberry jam through a fine sieve into a large basin to remove seeds.

Make the cream

  1. Add the lemon juice and heavy cream to the jam.

  2. Whisk the mixture to a strong froth.

  3. Gently mix the frothy cream into the jam.

  4. Add sifted sugar to taste.

  5. Add the dissolved isinglass, stirring well.

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. Cream + sugartop 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. Lemon + sugartop 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).

Lemon and sugar 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

Heavy cream
Whipped into a froth, it gives the dessert its light, airy body.
Isinglass
A gelatine-like setting agent that firms the mixture so it holds its shape.
Raspberry jam
Supplies the main flavour, colour and sweetness of the dessert.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweet raspberry flavour.

The step that matters

Whisking the cream to a strong froth. Cream must be whisked enough to trap air for lightness, but not so far that it turns grainy or separates. Folding it gently into the jam keeps the air bubbles intact.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against raspberry, 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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