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Raspberry Whip or Snow

A light dessert made by whipping egg whites with sugar and isinglass, then folded into raspberry syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Raspberry Whip or Snow

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Whisk the egg whites and sugar to a stiff froth.

  2. Dissolve the isinglass in a little warm water.

Make the whip and serve

  1. Quickly stir the dissolved isinglass into the egg mixture.

  2. Pile the mixture over chocolate cream or any other dish.

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. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + raspberrytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

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

  3. Egg + raspberrytop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg whites
Whipped into a stiff foam that gives the whip its light, airy structure.
Sugar
Sweetens the whip and helps stabilise the beaten egg white foam.
Isinglass
Sets the whip as it cools, so it holds its shape when piled.
Raspberry syrup
Adds raspberry flavour, sweetness and colour to the whip.

The step that matters

Quickly stir the dissolved isinglass into the egg mixture. Isinglass begins to set as it cools, so it must be added while still liquid and mixed in quickly. Slow or heavy stirring knocks air out of the foam and can leave set streaks, making the whip dense instead of light.

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar. 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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