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
Mash the raspberries gently and let them drain.
Sprinkle a little sugar over the raspberries to produce more juice.
Combine the raspberry juice with cream and sweeten to taste.
If desired, add milk to prevent curdling, but it's best to use raspberry jelly instead of jam if fresh fruit is unavailable.
Make the cream
Boil isinglass shavings in 3 pints of mixed cream and milk for 15 minutes until melted, then strain into a basin.
Once cool, mix in raspberry juice or syrup, sweeten, and add brandy.
Whisk until three parts cold, then pour into a mold and refrigerate until fully set.
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.
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Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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Raspberry + brandytop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together235 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol (freshly cut grass green and herbaceous notes).
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Cream + brandytop 16% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together2,635 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).
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Cream + raspberrytop 16% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together1,332 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Sugar + brandytop 19% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together11,939 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Sugar and brandy barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 11,939 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
- Cream
- Provides richness and a smooth, creamy body to the set dessert.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the dessert and draws juice out of the raspberries.
- Raspberry juice or syrup
- Supplies the main fruit flavour and colour.
- Isinglass shavings
- Gelatin-like setting agent that firms the cream so it holds its shape when chilled.
The step that matters
Whisking the cream while it is cold. Isinglass sets only as it cools, so the mixture must be cold enough to thicken before it is whisked. Whisking into a warm mixture can prevent a light, even set and cause the cream to separate.
Swap the raspberry
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sugar, brandy):
- Vanillafits better
- Apricotfits about as well
- Strawberryfits about as well
- Raspberrythe original
Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, 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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