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Whipped-cream Sauce

A light sauce made with whipped cream, egg whites, sugar, vanilla, and rum or wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and rum work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 728 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Whipped-cream Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Flavor the whipped cream with vanilla, rum, or wine.

  2. Sweeten to taste with powdered sugar.

  3. Beat the egg whites to a very stiff froth.

Combine and serve

  1. Gently fold the whipped cream and egg whites together.

  2. Serve with plum pudding, blancmange, or other desserts.

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. Vanilla + rumtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together728 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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

  4. Sugar + rumtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,908 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Cream + vanillatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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

Whipped cream
Adds richness and a light, creamy body to the sauce.
Egg whites
Whipped into foam, they add airy lightness and volume to the sauce.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the sauce, and its fine texture dissolves easily into cream.

The step that matters

Gently fold the whipped cream and egg whites together. Egg white foam and whipped cream hold air in their structure. Vigorous stirring pops those air bubbles and deflates the sauce, so folding gently keeps it light and airy.

“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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