Why it works: Sugar and cream 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 ↓
Sugared Blackberries
Ingredients
Directions
Layer
Place the blackberries in a glass bowl.
Sprinkle each layer with pulverized sugar, using about 1 teacup, and make sure the top layer is sugar.
Serve
Serve in berry saucers with cream, if desired.
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.
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Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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What each ingredient does
- Blackberries
- Provide the main fruit body and juice that the sugar draws out into a syrup.
- Pulverized sugar
- Sweetens the berries and draws out their juice to form a syrup.
The step that matters
Sugar every layer, including the top. Sugar draws liquid out of fruit through osmosis. Sugar on every layer, including the top, spreads sweetness and syrup evenly, so no berries are left tart or dry.
“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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