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Milled Fruit Water Ice

A chilled ice made from lemon juice, syrup, water, preserved peel, angelica, and cochineal.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Milled Fruit Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Squeeze the lemons into a bowl.

  2. Add the syrup and water, then freeze until rich.

  3. Cut the preserved orange and lemon peel, and angelica into small pieces.

Finish and freeze

  1. When the ice is soft like butter, mix in the chopped sweetmeats.

  2. Pass the mixture through a sieve before freezing again.

  3. Add a little cochineal for color, creating veins in the ice before placing it in molds.

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 + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Lemon + angelicatop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together189 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Orange + angelicatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Syrup + angelicatop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together111 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Lemon + syruptop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,235 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

Lemons
Provide the acidity and bright flavor that define the ice.
Syrup
Adds sweetness and softens the ice by lowering its freezing point.
Preserved orange peel
Adds concentrated citrus aroma and bitter-sweet flavor throughout the ice.
Preserved lemon peel
Adds concentrated lemon aroma and flavor throughout the ice.
Angelica
Adds a distinctive herbal, aromatic flavor and chewy texture in small pieces.

The step that matters

Pass the mixture through a sieve before freezing again. Sieving removes fibers, seeds and lumps from the partly frozen mixture, giving a smoother texture so the ice does not turn grainy or icy when refrozen.

Swap the angelica

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, syrup, orange):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Angelicathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, syrup, orange. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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