Name: Gelatine in Ice Cream
Ingredients: 3 oz gelatine; ½ gallon water; fine granulated sugar; 18-22% butter-fat cream; vanilla extract or vanilla oil (optional); condensed milk or evaporated milk (if needed)

Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Gelatine in Ice Cream

Ingredients

3 oz gelatine
½ gallon water
fine granulated sugar
18-22% butter-fat cream
vanilla extract or vanilla oil (optional)
condensed milk or evaporated milk (if needed)

Directions

Dissolve the gelatine in a can with water over boiling water, stirring occasionally until fully dissolved.
Strain the mixture into the freezing can using a very fine sieve.
Mix the batch thoroughly in a milk can or mixing can with a large wooden paddle before straining.
Use fine granulated sugar unless the recipe specifies otherwise.
For best results, use cream with 18-22% butter fat.

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.

Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together35,032 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Sugar + condensed milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together804 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Cream + condensed milktop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together416 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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Gelatine in Ice Cream