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Damson Water Ice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the base
Combine the pulped damsons, simple syrup, and egg white in a bowl and mix the ingredients thoroughly.
Freeze
Pour the mixture into a freezer and churn until sufficiently frozen.
Once frozen, embed the mixture in ice in its mold.
Finish
Add the meringue mass and work it into the mixture after it is frozen.
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.
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Syrup + eggtop 32% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together2,995 recipes
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What each ingredient does
- Damsons
- Provide the main fruit flavor, tartness, and color of the ice.
- Simple syrup
- Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice soft and scoopable.
- Egg white
- Whipped into a meringue, it adds an airy, light texture to the frozen mixture.
The step that matters
Working in the meringue after freezing. Egg white foam holds air that gives the ice its lightness. Working it in too vigorously or after the mixture softens can deflate it, so it should be folded in gently while the base is still firm.
“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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