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Whipped Cream Sauce

A light sauce made from sweet cream, powdered sugar, flavoring, and egg white.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar 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 ↓

Whipped Cream Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, mix the cream, powdered sugar, and flavoring together.

  2. Whip the mixture to a froth.

  3. Gently fold in the stiffly beaten egg white at the end.

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

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

  2. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Cream + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet cream
Fat and water whip into a foam that gives the sauce body and lightness.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves easily into the cold cream.
Egg white
Stiffly beaten white traps air, adding lightness and a fluffy texture.
Flavoring
Adds aroma and flavor to the sauce.

The step that matters

Gently fold in the stiffly beaten egg white at the end. Beaten egg white holds its airiness because of trapped air bubbles. Stirring vigorously or overmixing knocks that air out, so the sauce turns dense instead of light and fluffy. Folding with a gentle, sweeping motion keeps the foam intact.

“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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