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Raspberry Cream

A chilled dessert made by blending raspberry jam with cream, lime juice, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Raspberry Cream

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 Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cream

  1. Combine raspberry jam and cream in a bowl.

  2. Pulp the mixture through a fine sieve.

  3. Add lime juice and pounded sugar, mixing to taste.

  4. Whisk until thick.

Serve

  1. Serve in a dish or glasses.

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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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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Raspberry + limetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together132 recipes

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

  3. Raspberry + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

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

  4. Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

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

  5. Lime + sugartop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,332 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

Cream
Whisked, it thickens and holds air, giving the dish its body.
Raspberry jam
Supplies the fruit flavour, colour and sweetness of the cream.
Lime juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness of the jam and cream.
Pounded sugar
Sweetens the cream, adjusted to taste.

The step that matters

Whisk until thick. Cream thickens as its fat globules partly clump and trap air when whisked. Stop too early and it stays runny; go too far and it turns grainy or buttery.

Swap the lime

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against raspberry, cream, sugar. 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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