Name: Strawberry Cream
Ingredients: 5 gallons ice cream; 1 pint strawberry syrup

Why it works: Cream and syrup are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,964 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Strawberry Cream

Ingredients

5 gallons ice cream
1 pint strawberry syrup

Directions

Add the strawberry syrup to the ice cream. Mix until the ice cream has a nice pink color.

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.

Cream + syruptop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,964 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Cream + strawberrytop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,525 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Strawberry + syruptop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together332 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

Ice cream: Forms the creamy, cold base that the syrup is folded into.
Strawberry syrup: Adds strawberry flavor and sweetness, and gives the ice cream its pink color.