Name: Raspberry Water Ice
Ingredients: 1 pint raspberry juice; ½ pint lemon juice; 3 pints simple syrup; 8 pints water; 10 drops carmine; 10 drops caramel

Why it works: Raspberry and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,109 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Raspberry Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

Mix raspberry juice, lemon juice, simple syrup, and water in a large bowl.
Add carmine and caramel, stirring well.

Freeze and serve

Pour the mixture into a container and freeze until solid.
Serve as directed.

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.

Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,109 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Lemon + syruptop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,235 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Raspberry + syruptop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together377 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

Raspberry juice: Provides the main raspberry flavour and aroma of the ice.
Lemon juice: Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness and sharpens the fruit flavour.
Simple syrup: Sugar that softens the ice and keeps it from freezing rock-hard.
Carmine: Colouring that gives the ice its red colour.