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Souffle Frappe Au Marasquin

A chilled whipped cream dessert flavored with maraschino liqueur and syrup, topped with pistachios.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pistachio and nuts match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 425 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Souffle Frappe Au Marasquin

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Whip the cream until thick.

  2. Add syrup and maraschino, mixing carefully.

  3. Prepare a soufflé dish with a paper band about 2 inches high.

Freeze and serve

  1. Pour the cream mixture into the dish and sprinkle with chopped pistachios.

  2. Place in an ice cabinet or refrigerator charged with ice and coarse salt for 2 to 3 hours.

  3. Remove the paper band, pipe whipped cream on top, and add a few pistachio nuts for decoration.

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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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. Pistachio + nutstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together425 recipes

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

  2. Cream + syruptop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Cream + pistachiotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together634 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  4. Cream + nutstop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together886 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Syrup + pistachiotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Thick cream
Whipped into air bubbles, it forms the light, airy structure of the soufflé.
Syrup
Adds sweetness and softens the chill, so the dessert is not overly hard.
Maraschino
Adds a distinct cherry-like aroma and flavour to the cream.

The step that matters

Mixing in the syrup and maraschino. Folding gently keeps the air bubbles in the whipped cream intact. Overmixing deflates the cream, leaving a dense texture instead of a light, airy soufflé.

Swap the nuts

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

  1. Cashew nutfits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Hazelnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, syrup, pistachio. 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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