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Lemonade Iced

A chilled lemonade mixed with whipped egg whites and optionally flavored with morello cherry or currant juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cherry and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,598 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Lemonade Iced

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Make a quart of rich lemonade.

  2. Whip the egg whites to a strong froth.

  3. Mix the whipped egg whites well with the lemonade.

Freeze

  1. Freeze the mixture.

  2. For delicate ices, mix morello cherry juice or currant juice with water and sugar, and prepare in the same way.

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. Cherry + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,598 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Egg + cherrytop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,611 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Egg whites
Whipped to a froth, they add airy lightness and a foamy texture to the frozen mixture.
Rich lemonade
Provides the main sweet-tart flavour and liquid base of the ice.
Morello cherry juice or currant juice
Offered as an alternative base, adding fruity flavour and colour to the delicate ice.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and softens the texture of the frozen mixture.

The step that matters

Whipping the egg whites to a strong froth. Egg whites hold air only when whipped to a stable foam. Under-whipped whites collapse when mixed in, leaving the ice dense rather than light.

Swap the cherry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Cherrythe 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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