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Frozen Custard with Peaches

A chilled custard dessert made with milk, cream, sugar, egg yolks, cornstarch, and peach pulp.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Frozen Custard with Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. Scald the milk and sugar in a double boiler until the water boils.

  2. Beat the egg yolks until light and slowly add them to the hot milk.

  3. Cook the mixture until it coats the back of a spoon.

  4. Stir until cool, then freeze the mixture.

Finish and freeze

  1. When half frozen, add the whipped cream and peach pulp.

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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Milk + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  3. Sugar + peachtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Forms the creamy base of the custard, giving body and richness to the frozen dessert.
Egg yolks
Thicken the custard as they cook and add richness and smoothness.
Granulated sugar
Sweetens the base and lowers the freezing point, keeping the frozen texture softer.
Thick cream
Adds fat, which makes the frozen custard smoother and less icy.
Peach pulp
Provides the main peach flavor and moisture in the finished dessert.
Cornstarch
Thickens the mixture and helps keep it stable during cooking and freezing.

The step that matters

Cook the mixture until it coats the back of a spoon. Egg yolks thicken as they heat, but overcooking can curdle them into lumps. Stopping when the custard coats a spoon gives a smooth, thickened base.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, cream, sugar, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits about as well
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, cream, sugar, egg. 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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