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Peach Cream

A frozen dessert made from ripe peaches, cream, milk, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Peach Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Peel the peaches.

  2. Chop the peaches finely.

  3. Mash the chopped peaches into a jam.

Make the base

  1. Add 1 pint of cream and 1 pint of milk to the peaches. Mix well.

  2. Dissolve 1 ounce of gelatin in 1 cup of water.

  3. Boil the milk.

  4. Pour the boiled milk over the gelatin.

  5. Let the mixture cool.

  6. Mix the cooled gelatin mixture with the peaches.

  7. Whip the cream with 2 cups of sugar until stiff.

  8. Gently fold the mashed peaches into the whipped cream.

Freeze

  1. Pour the mixture into a freezer, reserving about ¼ for later.

  2. Add the reserved mixture to the freezing mixture. Stir well.

  3. Beat the mixture with a strong spoon whenever the freezer is opened.

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

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

  2. Peach + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  3. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Cream + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

Sugar and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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

Ripe peaches
Provide the main fruit flavour and body of the ice cream.
Powdered white sugar
Sweetens the cream and softens the texture of the frozen ice cream.
Rich cream
Adds fat that makes the ice cream smooth and rich.
Rich milk
Adds dairy liquid and milk solids that give the base body.
Gelatin (in the method)
Helps the mixture set and holds it together for a smoother texture.

The step that matters

Beat the mixture whenever the freezer is opened. Stirring during freezing breaks up ice crystals as they form, keeping the ice cream smooth instead of icy and grainy.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream, milk. 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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