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Truly Key Lime Pie Ice Cream

"I searched everywhere for a recipe like this on the 'net. Lots of looking but no success, so here's one I came up with. My family loves this, and it's much more versatile than the 'real thing'(I'm making it into popsicles next)!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Truly Key Lime Pie Ice Cream

Why it works: Evaporated milk and condensed milk match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 168 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Truly Key Lime Pie Ice Cream

3 quarts
Prep7 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

805Calories
28 gProtein
20 gFat
128 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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. Evaporated milk + condensed milktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together168 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Lime + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,289 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Evaporated milk + sugartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Condensed milk + sugartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the lemon

The recipe marks lemon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (evaporated milk, condensed milk, milk, cream, egg, sugar, lime):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Bananafits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against evaporated milk, condensed milk, milk, cream, egg, sugar, lime. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.