Name: To Make Pbuit-water Ices
Ingredients: nice ripe fruit; pounded sugar; syrup (omit egg white)

Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

To Make Pbuit-water Ices

Ingredients

nice ripe fruit
pounded sugar
syrup (omit egg white)

Directions

Select ripe fruit and remove the stalks.
Place the fruit in a large bowl and sprinkle with a little pounded sugar.
Stir with a wooden spoon until well broken, then rub through a fine sieve.
Make syrup according to your preferred recipe, omitting the egg white.
Let the syrup cool, then add the fruit juice and mix well.
Pour the mixture into a freezing pot and freeze as directed for Ice Paddings.
Once equally frozen, serve in small glasses.

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.

Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,842 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Syrup + eggtop 32% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,995 recipes