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Cherokee Iced Chocolate

A chilled chocolate dessert with ice and chocolate syrup, flavored with vanilla and topped with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,020 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Cherokee Iced Chocolate

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chocolate

  1. Prepare the chocolate in the usual way and let it cool.

  2. Flavor the cooled chocolate with vanilla extract to taste.

Assemble and garnish

  1. In a chocolate cup, add 1 tablespoon of cracked ice.

  2. Pour in 2 tablespoons of chocolate syrup.

  3. Top with a garnish of whipped 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.

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. Chocolate + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  3. Syrup + creamtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Vanilla + syruptop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Chocolate + syruptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,239 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Chocolate
Forms the body of the drink and supplies the main chocolate flavor.
Chocolate syrup
Adds sweetness and deepens the chocolate flavor.
Cracked ice
Chills the drink quickly and dilutes it slightly as it melts.
Vanilla extract
Adds aroma that rounds out the chocolate flavor.

The step that matters

Let the chocolate cool before adding the ice. Hot chocolate melts the ice quickly, which dilutes the drink and leaves it lukewarm instead of cold and rich.

“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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