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Prune Cream

A dessert made by stewing prunes, sieving, and folding into whipped cream, served with biscuits.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and biscuit are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,874 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Prune Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the prune purée

  1. Stew the prunes in the water with the sugar until tender.

  2. Rub the mixture through a wire sieve to remove all the stones.

Assemble and serve

  1. Whip the cream until stiff.

  2. Add the cold prune mixture to the whipped cream and stir together.

  3. Serve in a glass dish with sugar biscuits or any nice fancy biscuit.

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. Sugar + biscuittop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Prunes
Provide the main fruit flavour and body for the cream.
Sugar
Sweetens the prunes and balances their tartness.
Cream (in the method)
Adds richness and a light, airy texture when whipped.

The step that matters

Whip the cream until stiff. Cream must be whipped to firm peaks so it holds air and keeps its shape when the cold prune mixture is folded in. Overwhipping can turn it grainy or buttery, while underwhipping leaves it runny.

“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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