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Dressed Cream and Compound Creams

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,371 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Dressed Cream and Compound Creams

Ingredients

Directions

  1. If using gum acacia, dissolve it in a small amount of orange-flower water to thicken the cream.

  2. Whip the double cream until it forms soft peaks.

  3. Flavor the whipped cream with vanilla or liqueurs as desired.

  4. For a contrast, mix in grated brown bread.

  5. Serve the whipped cream garnished with sponge cakes, macaroons, or ratafias.

  6. To make whipped cream with fruit, mix fruit puree with powdered sugar in a 1:4 ratio.

  7. Fold in an equal volume of whipped cream into the fruit mixture.

  8. If the fruit puree is too juicy, serve it on slices of sponge cake or lady's fingers.

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. Orange + vanillatop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,371 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Vanilla + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together497 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

Vanilla and sugar 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

Swap the orange

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

  1. Figfits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, vanilla, bread, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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