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Fresh Currant Water Ice

A frozen dessert made from currant juice, clarified sugar, and cold boiled water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Currant and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,256 recipes. The science ↓

Fresh Currant Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Squeeze the currants to obtain 1 pint of juice.

  2. Add 1 cup of clarified sugar and 3 cups of cold boiled water.

  3. Strain the mixture through a fine sieve.

Freeze

  1. Freeze the mixture according to your ice cream maker's instructions.

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.

  1. Currant + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,256 recipes

Currant and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,256 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

Ripe currant juice
Provides the main flavor and the tart, acidic character of the water ice.
Clarified sugar
Sweetens the ice and lowers its freezing point, keeping the texture soft and scoopable.

The step that matters

Strain the mixture through a fine sieve. Straining removes pulp and skins from the currant juice. Leftover solids can freeze into gritty particles, so a fine sieve helps give the water ice a smooth 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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