Why it works: Green tea and cream work together. They rank in the top 32% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 48 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓
Tea Ice Cream
Ingredients
Directions
Make the tea
Cover the tea with boiling water and let it steep for 15 minutes.
Combine and strain
Add the steeped tea to the cream prepared as in No. 276.
Mix well and strain through a sieve.
Freeze
When cold, pour into the freezing pot to ice.
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.
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Green tea + creamtop 32% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together48 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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What each ingredient does
- Green tea
- Supplies the main flavour and aroma of the ice cream.
- Cream
- Adds fat for richness and a smooth, creamy texture.
“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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