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Strawberry Cream

A chilled gelatin dessert made with cream, strawberry jam, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,053 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Strawberry Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the gelatin in the milk for 20 minutes.

  2. Rub the jam through a wire sieve.

Make the cream

  1. Whip the cream and stir in the jam and lemon juice.

  2. Add a little carmine to tint the mixture pale pink.

  3. Melt the gelatin, strain it, and mix it with the cream.

Set

  1. Pour the mixture into an oiled mold.

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.

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 + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

  2. Strawberry jam + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together144 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

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

  4. Cream + strawberry jamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together143 recipes
  5. Cream + lemontop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,640 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,640 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

Cream
Whipped to provide the light, rich body of the dessert.
Gelatine
Sets the cream so it holds its shape when unmolded.
Strawberry jam
Adds sweetness and strawberry flavour to the cream.
Lemon juice
Adds a little acidity that brightens the strawberry flavour.

The step that matters

Melting and mixing the gelatine. Gelatine must be fully dissolved and strained before it is mixed in. Lumps or overheated gelatine can set unevenly or form strands, and gelatine added to cream that is too cold can clump instead of blending smoothly.

Swap the strawberry jam

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Strawberry jamthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, lemon, milk. 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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