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Strawberry Sauce

A sweet sauce made from butter, sugar, boiling water, and crushed strawberries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 98,233 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Strawberry Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cream the butter and sugar together until smooth.

  2. Add the boiling water and mix well.

  3. Stir in the crushed strawberries.

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. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, creamy body to the sauce.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and, creamed with butter, helps give the sauce a smooth texture.
Crushed strawberries
Provide the main fruit flavour, color, and fruity body to the sauce.

The step that matters

Add the boiling water to the creamed butter and sugar. Adding boiling water to the creamed mixture can cause it to separate or look grainy if added too quickly. Adding it gradually and mixing well helps the butter and sugar blend into a smooth, unified sauce.

“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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