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Seville Orange Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made from grated Seville orange rind, orange and lemon juice, syrup, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon 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 ↓

Seville Orange Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grate the rind of one Seville orange into a bowl.

  2. Juice three Seville oranges and two lemons.

Make and freeze

  1. Add ½ cup syrup and 1 pint cream to the bowl.

  2. Mix well and strain through a sieve.

  3. 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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Syrup + creamtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Orange + syruptop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,179 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Orange + creamtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,170 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Adds richness and fat, giving the frozen ice cream a smooth, creamy texture.
Syrup
Adds sweetness and softens the freezing texture by lowering the freezing point.
Seville oranges
Juice adds bright acidity and flavour, while the grated rind adds aromatic oil.
Lemons
Juice adds sharp acidity that balances the sweetness and brightens the flavour.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Orangethe original
  2. Raspberryfits about as well
  3. Vanillafits about as well
  4. Limefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, syrup, cream. 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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