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Imitation Souffle Iced a LA Charles Kean

A chilled imitation soufflé made with syrup, raspberry juice, lemon, maraschino liqueur, 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 the raspberry juice, lemon juice, and maraschino liqueur.

  3. Whisk the mixture until it thickens.

  4. Remove the mixture from heat and let it rest for 10 minutes.

Fold and freeze

  1. Fold in the chocolate drops and whipped cream.

  2. Lightly fill a mold with the mixture.

  3. Place the filled mold in a tub of crushed ice and salt.

  4. After 2 hours, remove the mixture from the mold.

Serve

  1. Cover the mixture with powdered baked savoy biscuit.

  2. 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.

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. 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 the base and add richness and structure as they set gently.
Syrup
Sweetens the base and helps keep the frozen texture soft and scoopable.
Raspberry juice
Adds fruit flavor and liquid to the base.
Double cream
Adds fat and airy lightness when whipped and folded in.
Maraschino liqueur
Adds aromatic cherry flavor and some sweetness to the base.

The step that matters

Whisk the mixture until it thickens. Egg yolks thicken as they are gently heated, but overheating curdles them and leaves a grainy texture. Stop once the mixture coats the back of a spoon, then remove it from heat.

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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