Name: Chocolate Ice Cream
Ingredients: 1 pint of cream; 1 pound of grated chocolate

Why it works: Cream and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,466 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chocolate Ice Cream

Ingredients

1 pint of cream
1 pound of grated chocolate

Directions

Make the base

In a saucepan, heat 1 pint of cream over medium heat.
Add 1 pound of grated chocolate and stir until it dissolves.
Add any additional ingredients as needed.

Strain and freeze

Strain the mixture through a fine sieve.
Freeze the mixture according to your ice cream maker's instructions.

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.

Cream + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cream: Provides fat and richness, giving the ice cream a smooth, creamy texture.
Grated chocolate: Supplies the chocolate flavour and, through its cocoa fat, adds richness to the base.

“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.