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Tutti-frutti Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made with cream, sugar, eggs, vanilla, preserved fruits, lemon juice, and optional kirschenwasser.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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. In a clean copper basin, mix the cream, sugar, eggs, and vanilla pieces.

  2. Heat the mixture over low heat, stirring constantly until it just reaches boiling point.

  3. Strain the mixture through a fine sieve into an earthenware or stoneware pan and let it cool.

Freeze and finish

  1. Pour the cooled mixture into your ice cream freezer and freeze, turning slowly until it is difficult to turn.

  2. Remove the dasher and fold in the preserved fruits, kirschenwasser, and lemon juice using a spatula.

  3. Drain excess water from the freezer tub, repack with fresh ice and salt, and cover with blankets.

  4. Let it sit for 1-2 hours to harden and ripen.

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 add richness as it is gently heated.
Rich cream
Provides fat that makes the ice cream smooth and creamy rather than icy.
White sugar
Sweetens the base and lowers the freezing point, keeping the texture soft.
Preserved and slightly-dried fruits
Add chewy texture and concentrated fruit flavor throughout the frozen cream.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweet cream and fruit flavors.

The step that matters

Heating the custard to just boiling. Heating over low heat while stirring constantly keeps the eggs from scrambling. Overheating curdles the custard and leaves a grainy texture after freezing.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, egg, vanilla, 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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