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Cantaloup Ice

A frozen dessert made from cantaloupe pulp, simple syrup, sherry wine, ice, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and sherry work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 141 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cantaloup Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scoop the pulp from the cantaloupe in spoonfuls and remove the seeds.

  2. Sweeten the pulp with simple syrup and flavor with sherry wine.

  3. Mix the syrup and pulp well without crushing.

Freeze and serve

  1. Pack the mixture in ice and salt, and freeze without stirring for about three hours.

  2. Serve in glasses, or in the scooped-out rind of the cantaloupe if desired.

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. Syrup + sherrytop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together141 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Syrup + winetop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together381 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sherry + winetop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Cantaloupe
Provides the sweet, juicy pulp that forms the body of the ice.
Simple syrup
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice softer.
Sherry wine
Adds aromatic depth and a little alcohol, which also softens the frozen texture.

The step that matters

Freeze without stirring. Stirring during freezing breaks up forming ice crystals and can make the texture grainy or uneven. Leaving the mixture undisturbed lets it freeze into a smoother, more uniform ice.

“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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