Name: Frozen Pudding or Tutti-frutti
Ingredients: one quart of the ice cream add; one cup of candied plums; one cup all together; one quart of chocolate ice cream; one cup of the fruits; a tablespoonful of brandy

Why it works: Cream and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,466 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Frozen Pudding or Tutti-frutti

Ingredients

Directions

Make the ice cream

Make vanilla ice cream using heavy cream.
After it is frozen, add one cup of candied plums, apricots, and cherries (one cup total) cut into fine pieces and soaked in sherry or maraschino, with a tablespoonful of brandy, and let sit for one hour.

Freeze and serve

Turn mixture into a mould, pack in ice and salt two hours before serving, or serve from the freezer.

Chocolate variation

Make one quart of chocolate ice cream, and add one cup of the fruits as given in frozen pudding.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

236Calories

2 gProtein

14 gFat

25 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Ice Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Plum	1 medium (66g)	30
Fruit	not in our table	0
Brandy	not in our table	0

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

By Norton, Caroline Trask. 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. See the original page.

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.

Cream + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,466 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Plum + brandytop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together168 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Chocolate + brandytop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together287 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Cream + brandytop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,635 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).
Plum + chocolatetop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together53 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-methyl-1-butanol (fusel, malty).

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

What each ingredient does

Chocolate ice cream: Forms the creamy frozen base of the pudding.
Candied plums: Adds sweetness and a chewy texture against the smooth ice cream.
Brandy: Adds aroma and keeps the frozen mixture softer by lowering its freezing point.