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Curds and Cream

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Curds and Cream

Why it works: Lemon and raspberry 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 ↓

Curds and Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Turn the milk as for cheesecakes until the curd becomes firm.

  2. Drop the curd into a mold with holes, adding more as the whey runs off.

  3. Let it remain in the mold for about two hours.

  4. Turn it out into a glass dish or bowl.

  5. Serve with plain or whipped cream, sugar, white wine, lemon, or raspberry jam/currant jelly.

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. Lemon + raspberrytop 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. White wine + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. White wine + raspberrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together71 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Milk + raspberrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,014 recipes

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

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

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, cream, sugar, white wine, raspberry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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