Name: Raspberry Whips
Ingredients: fresh raspberries or raspberry jam; cream; sugar; prepared cochineal (optional); raspberry jelly or jam

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 Whips

Ingredients

Directions

Rub fresh raspberries or raspberry jam through a sieve to remove the seeds.
Mix the raspberry puree with cream and sugar to taste.
Whisk the mixture and remove the froth as it rises.
Place the froth on a sieve; if the color is not good, add a few drops of prepared cochineal.
Put a little raspberry jelly or jam in jelly glasses and heap the froth on top as high as possible.

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.

Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Raspberry + creamtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,332 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,101 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).