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Strawberry Fruit Ice

A chilled dessert made from strawberry juice or pulp, simple syrup, orange juice, water, and a coloring agent.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Strawberry and orange work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 726 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Strawberry Fruit Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Combine strawberry juice or pulp, simple syrup (or pulverized sugar), orange juice, and water in a bowl.

  2. Mix well until fully combined.

  3. Add prepared carmine or liquid cochineal and stir.

Freeze and serve

  1. Freeze the mixture in an ice cream maker or suitable container until solid.

  2. Serve chilled.

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. Strawberry + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together726 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Strawberry + syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together332 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Syrup + orangetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,179 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

Strawberry juice or pulp
Provides the main flavour and fruit body of the ice.
Simple syrup or pulverized sugar
Sweetens the ice and lowers its freezing point, keeping it softer when frozen.
Orange juice
Adds acidity that brightens the strawberry flavour.
Carmine or cochineal
Adds a red colour to the ice.

The step that matters

Freeze until solid. Freezing must be thorough but the mixture needs stirring or churning in an ice cream maker so small ice crystals form, giving a smooth rather than icy texture.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (strawberry, syrup):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pineapplefits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against strawberry, syrup. 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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