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Imitation Souffle Iced a LA Charles Kean

A chilled dessert made from syrup, raspberry juice, lemon, maraschino, egg yolks, chocolate drops, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,109 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Imitation Souffle Iced a LA Charles Kean

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Mix the syrup and egg yolks, then strain into a warmed bowl.

  2. Add raspberry juice, lemon juice, and maraschino; whisk until creamy.

  3. Continue whisking off the heat for 10 minutes.

Freeze and serve

  1. Fold in chocolate drops and whipped cream gently.

  2. Fill a mold with the mixture and place it in a tub of crushed ice and salt.

  3. After 2 hours, remove from the ice, take off the paper band, and cover with powdered baked savoy biscuit.

  4. Serve immediately.

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. Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

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

  2. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  3. Raspberry + chocolatetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together457 recipes

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

  4. Syrup + creamtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Syrup + chocolatetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,239 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolks
Thicken and enrich the mixture, giving it a custard-like body and smooth texture.
Syrup
Sweetens the base and helps keep the frozen mixture soft rather than rock hard.
Raspberry juice
Provides the main fruit flavour and liquid for the mixture.
Double cream
Adds fat and air when whipped, giving a light, creamy texture.
Chocolate drops
Adds richness and melting texture as they are folded through the mixture.

The step that matters

Whisking off the heat for 10 minutes. Egg yolks can scramble if overheated. Whisking them off the heat while they thicken keeps the base smooth and creamy rather than grainy.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against syrup, raspberry, egg, chocolate, cream. 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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