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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Ice Cream

Why it works: Cream and sugar 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 ↓

Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix cream, milk, sugar, and any optional ingredients like gelatine, eggs, or fruit in a bowl.

  2. Prepare ice by breaking it into walnut-sized pieces and mix it with coarse sea salt in a 3:1 ratio.

  3. Place the mixture in a can and surround it with the ice and salt mixture.

  4. Freeze the ice cream until it reaches the desired consistency.

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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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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Cocoa + nutstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Milk + cocoatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together643 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Milk + nutstop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together982 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

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

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

Swap the cocoa

The recipe marks cocoa as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, milk, sugar, egg, nuts):

  1. Pistachiofits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Pecansfits about as well
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, milk, sugar, egg, nuts. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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