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Sour Cream Filling

A mixture of almonds, sour cream, sugar, eggs, and nuts used as a cake filling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and nuts work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 394 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Sour Cream Filling

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Blanch and chop the almonds.

  2. Beat the sour cream until light and thick.

Make the filling

  1. Add the sugar, beaten eggs, and chopped nuts to the sour cream.

  2. Spread the mixture between layers of cake.

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. Almond + nutstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together394 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Almond + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  4. Almond + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,679 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Cream + nutstop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together886 recipes

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

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Sour cream
Provides moisture and a rich, tangy body that gives the filling its creamy texture.
Eggs
Bind the filling and help it set slightly when combined with the cream.
Almonds
Add body and a nutty flavor and texture to the filling.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tanginess of the sour cream.

The step that matters

Beat the sour cream until light and thick. Beating incorporates air and thickens the cream so the filling holds its body and spreads evenly instead of running out from between the cake layers.

Swap the nuts

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

  1. Pistachiofits better
  2. Hazelnutfits better
  3. Brazil nutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, cream, sugar, egg. 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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