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Frozen Strawberries

A dessert of boiled strawberries cooled, frozen, and served with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream 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 ↓

Frozen Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup and cook

  1. Boil the water and sugar together for 30 minutes.

  2. Add the strawberries.

  3. Cook for 15 minutes longer.

Cool and freeze

  1. Let the mixture cool.

  2. Freeze it.

Serve

  1. Add the whipped cream before serving.

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.

Explore the science

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the main fruit flavor and body of the frozen dessert.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point so the dessert stays softer and scoopable.
Whipped cream
Adds fat for a creamy, smooth texture and a lighter mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before freezing. Freezing a warm mixture takes longer and forms larger ice crystals, which make the texture coarse and icy. Cooling first gives smaller crystals and a smoother result.

“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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