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Red Currant Cream Ice

A frozen dessert made from red currant pulp, syrup, and double cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,964 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Red Currant Cream Ice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare red currant pulp by rubbing through a sieve.

  2. Mix the pulp, syrup, and cream together.

  3. Freeze the mixture until stiff.

  4. Work the ice vigorously and set it in a mold.

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. Syrup + creamtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Red currant + syruptop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together76 recipes
  3. Red currant + creamtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together247 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Red currant pulp
Provides the main tart fruit flavour and colour of the ice cream.
Syrup
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point so the ice stays soft and scoopable.
Double cream
Adds fat, which gives the ice cream a smooth, rich texture.

The step that matters

Work the ice vigorously. Beating the partly frozen mixture breaks up ice crystals and incorporates air, which keeps the texture smooth rather than icy. Leaving it to freeze unworked lets large crystals form.

Swap the red currant

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Red currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against syrup, cream. 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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