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Beaumes De Venise Ice Cream with Brandy Snaps and Salted Caramel Sauce

Sweet Muscat wine Beaumes de Venise makes the perfect grown-up flavour for ice cream and if that’s not sophisticated enough for you, try this caramel sauce made with sea salt crystals.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,621 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Beaumes De Venise Ice Cream with Brandy Snaps and Salted Caramel Sauce

Serves 4
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

969Calories
15 gProtein
40 gFat
130 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Syrupnot in our table0

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

By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,621 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Cream + syruptop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, wine, sugar, butter, syrup, flour, ginger):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, wine, sugar, butter, syrup, flour, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.