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Almond Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made by adding almond paste to ice cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and rose are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,465 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Almond Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the almond paste

  1. Blanch the almonds.

  2. Pound the almonds to a paste.

  3. Add a little rose water to the paste to prevent oiling.

Flavor the ice cream

  1. Add the almond paste to the ice cream for flavor.

  2. Use about 3 oz of almonds for each quart of ice 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. Almond + rosetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,465 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Almond + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  3. Rose + creamtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,086 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Almonds
Provide the main almond flavor and fat that carries it through the cream.
Rose water
Adds floral aroma to the almond paste.

The step that matters

Add rose water to the paste. Pounding almonds releases their oil, which can separate out as the paste is worked. A little rose water helps keep the paste smooth and prevents oiling, so the almond flavor blends evenly into the cream.

Swap the almond

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

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Pistachiofits about as well
  3. Walnutfits less well
  4. Filbertfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against rose, cream. 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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