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French Ice Creams

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 558 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

French Ice Creams

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scoop 25 oz of vanilla ice cream into a serving dish.

  2. Scoop 25 oz of chocolate ice cream into a serving dish.

  3. Scoop 25 oz of strawberry ice cream into a serving dish.

  4. Prepare 30 oz of assorted parfaits and place in serving dishes.

  5. Prepare 30 oz of chestnut parfait and serve.

  6. Serve 35 oz of Charlotte glacee in a dish.

  7. Serve 35 oz of meringue glacee in a dish.

  8. Prepare and serve 50 oz of Peach Melba.

  9. Prepare and serve 50 oz of Coupe St. Jacques.

  10. Prepare and serve 35 oz of Nesselrode pudding.

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. Vanilla + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together558 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Vanilla + strawberrytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,385 recipes

    Shared aroma: p-vinylguaiacol (spicy, fruity).

  3. Vanilla + chestnuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together244 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Strawberry + peachtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together228 recipes

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

  5. Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Swap the chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vanilla, cream, chocolate, strawberry, peach):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Hazelnutfits about as well
  3. Chestnutthe original
  4. Pistachiofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against vanilla, cream, chocolate, strawberry, peach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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