Name: Peach Ice Cream
Ingredients: 1 gallon cream; 3-4 pounds powdered sugar; 15 large ripe peaches

Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Peach Ice Cream

Ingredients

1 gallon cream
3-4 pounds powdered sugar
15 large ripe peaches

Directions

Prepare the peaches

Remove the seeds from the peaches and press them through a fine sieve.

Make the base

Combine the peach puree with the powdered sugar and cream.
Strain the mixture through a fine sieve into your ice cream freezer.

Freeze

Freeze 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.

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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.

Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Sugar + peachtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Cream + peachtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together721 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

Cream: Provides fat, which makes the ice cream rich and smooth in texture.
Powdered sugar: Adds sweetness and softens the frozen texture by lowering the freezing point.
Peaches: Supply the peach flavour and, as puree, moisture and body to the base.