Name: Raspberry Ice
Ingredients: 1 pint raspberry juice; 1½ pints simple syrup; ½ pint water; 3 tablespoons lemon juice

Why it works: Raspberry and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,109 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Raspberry Ice

Ingredients

1 pint raspberry juice
1½ pints simple syrup
½ pint water
3 tablespoons lemon juice

Directions

Mix raspberry juice, simple syrup, water, and lemon juice together.
Pour the mixture into a container and freeze 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.

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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.

Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,109 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Syrup + lemontop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,235 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Raspberry + syruptop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together377 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

Raspberry juice: Provides the main flavour and colour of the ice.
Simple syrup: Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point so the ice stays softer.
Lemon juice: Adds acidity that brightens the raspberry flavour.