Name: Strawberry Ice Cream
Ingredients: 1 large spoonful of strawberry jam; 2 cups of cream; a little cochineal (for color)

Why it works: Strawberry jam and cream work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 143 recipes. The science ↓

Strawberry Ice Cream

Ingredients

1 large spoonful of strawberry jam
2 cups of cream
a little cochineal (for color)

Directions

Mix the base

Combine the strawberry jam and cream in a bowl.
Add a small amount of cochineal for color.

Freeze

Pour the mixture into your freezing pot.
Follow the instructions for making raspberry cream to freeze.

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.

Strawberry jam + creamtop 27% of all pairs

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Cooked together143 recipes

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What each ingredient does

Strawberry jam: Adds sweetness and strawberry flavor to the cream base.
Cream: Provides fat for a rich, smooth texture by limiting ice crystal growth.

“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.