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Strawberry Cream

A chilled strawberry dessert made with whipped cream, sugar, and cochineal for color.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream 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 ↓

Strawberry Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Pick the stalks off the strawberries.

  2. Bruise the strawberries with a wooden spoon in a basin.

  3. Add the sugar and cochineal and mix well.

Make the cream

  1. Combine the cream and dissolved isinglass in a separate bowl and whisk the mixture together.

Set and turn out

  1. Dip a mold in cold water.

  2. Pour the cream mixture into the mold.

  3. Imbed the mold in ice.

  4. Dip the mold in hot water.

  5. Wipe the mold.

  6. Carefully turn out the cream.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the main fruit flavour and, once bruised, the pulp that colours and sweetens the dish.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the strawberries.
Whipped cream
Adds fat and richness, giving the finished dish a light, creamy texture.
Isinglass
Acts as a setting agent so the cream holds its shape when chilled in the mold.

The step that matters

Dip the mold in hot water. Isinglass sets the cream firm, so a brief dip loosens the outer layer for release. Leaving it too long melts the surface and can ruin the shape.

“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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