Name: Irish Cream Frozen Custard
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 24 servings
Ingredients: 2 (12 fluid ounce) cans evaporated milk; 3 cups whole milk; 2 cups Irish cream liqueur; 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk; 1 cup brown sugar; 1/4 cup white sugar; 5 eggs; 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 pinch ground nutmeg; 1 pinch salt; 1 vanilla bean

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 ↓

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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.

Evaporated milk + condensed milktop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together168 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together11,917 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together12,655 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together30,779 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Nutmeg	1 tsp ground (2.2g)	12
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Bean	not in our table	0

Irish Cream Frozen Custard