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Cederata Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made with cederata essence, lemon juice, and heavy cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,640 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Cederata Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Combine 2 tablespoons of essence of cederata in a bowl.

  2. Squeeze in the juice of 3 lemons.

  3. Add 1 pint of heavy cream and ensure the essence is fully dissolved.

Strain and freeze

  1. Strain the mixture through a sieve.

  2. Freeze the mixture until solid.

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. Lemon + creamtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,640 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Lemon and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,640 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Heavy cream
Supplies fat that gives the frozen ice cream a rich, smooth texture.
Lemons
Their juice adds sharp acidity and bright citrus flavour.

The step that matters

Ensure the essence is fully dissolved. If the essence is not fully dissolved before freezing, flavour can be uneven, with some spoonfuls much stronger than others.

“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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