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Tutti-frutti Ice Cream

A chilled dessert made from cream, sugar, eggs, elder flowers or vanilla, and mixed fruits.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Apricot and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 342 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Tutti-frutti Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. Rub the eggs and sugar together to form a paste.

  2. Mix in the cream and elder flowers (or vanilla extract).

  3. Stir constantly over medium heat until just about to boil.

  4. Strain the mixture, then cool it down.

Freeze and finish

  1. Freeze the mixture until solid.

  2. Once frozen, fold in the mixed fruits cut into small pieces.

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. Apricot + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together342 recipes

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

  2. Vanilla + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together558 recipes

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

  3. Vanilla + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together608 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  4. Vanilla + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together911 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Pineapple + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together377 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Egg yolks thicken the custard base and give the ice cream a rich, smooth body.
Cream
Provides fat that makes the ice cream rich and creamy in texture.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the base and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer when frozen.
Mixed fruits
Add flavour, colour and pieces of fruit texture folded into the frozen base.

The step that matters

Stir constantly over medium heat until just about to boil. Egg-thickened custard can curdle or scramble if overheated, so constant stirring and stopping just short of boiling keeps it smooth and thick.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, vanilla, sugar, egg, pineapple, apricot, peach):

  1. Strawberryfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, vanilla, sugar, egg, pineapple, apricot, peach. 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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