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Frozen Pudding or Tutti-frutti

A frozen dessert made from vanilla ice cream, candied fruits, and sherry or maraschino.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Plum and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 284 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Frozen Pudding or Tutti-frutti

Ingredients

Directions

Make the ice cream

  1. Make vanilla ice cream using heavy cream.

Add the fruit

  1. Once the ice cream is frozen, mix in the candied fruits that have been soaked in sherry or maraschino and brandy for one hour.

  2. Turn the mixture into a mold.

Freeze and serve

  1. Pack the mold in ice and salt for two hours before serving.

  2. Serve directly from the freezer.

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. Plum + apricottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Vanilla + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together608 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Vanilla + plumtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together171 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Sherry + brandytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Vanilla + sherrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

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

What each ingredient does

Heavy cream
Provides fat and richness, giving the frozen pudding a smooth, creamy texture.
Candied plums, apricots, and cherries
Adds concentrated sweetness, chewy texture and fruity flavour throughout the frozen dessert.
Sherry or maraschino
Soaks into the candied fruit, adding aromatic, fruity flavour and softening the fruit.
Brandy
Adds aroma and warmth to the soaked fruit; it stays soft in the freezer, so the fruit remains tender.

The step that matters

Mixing the fruit into the frozen ice cream. Fold the fruit in while the ice cream is frozen but still workable, so the pieces spread evenly instead of sinking or melting into streaks. Alcohol lowers the freezing point, so soaked fruit stays softer than dry fruit in the freezer.

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, vanilla, apricot, sherry, brandy):

  1. Strawberryfits about as well
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Peachfits about as well
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, vanilla, apricot, sherry, brandy. 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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