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Maple Frappe

A chilled maple-flavored custard dessert made with cream, milk, maple syrup, egg yolks, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,399 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Maple Frappe

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. Boil the maple syrup and milk together, reserving ½ cup.

  2. Blend the reserved syrup with the egg yolks.

  3. Pour the boiling syrup over the egg yolk mixture.

  4. Cover and let sit in a warm place for 10 minutes.

Cool and freeze

  1. Place the mixture in cold water and stir until cool.

  2. Add whipped cream and freeze.

  3. If not sweet enough, add more syrup.

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. Cream + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

  2. Maple syrup + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together798 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Cream + maple syruptop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together607 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Cream + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 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

Maple syrup
Provides the main sweetness and the maple flavor of the frappe.
Egg yolks
Thicken the custard base and add richness as they cook gently with the hot syrup.
Heavy cream
Adds fat for a smooth, creamy texture and a lighter mouthfeel once whipped.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the syrup and yolks are combined into.

The step that matters

Pour the boiling syrup over the egg yolk mixture. Egg yolks thicken when heated but can scramble if they get too hot too fast. Adding the hot syrup gradually while stirring keeps the custard smooth and lets it thicken evenly.

“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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