Name: Strawberry Ice Cream
Ingredients: 2 quarts berries; 2 cups sugar; 1 pint milk stirring it well to separate the seeds; a piece of cheesecloth; 1 lemon

Why it works: Milk and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,053 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Strawberry Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

Wash and mash 2 quarts of berries.
Sprinkle 2 cups of sugar over the mash and let stand until dissolved.
Squeeze the mixture through a piece of cheesecloth.
Put the remaining mash into a separate bowl.

Make the mixture

Gradually pour 1 pint of milk over the mash, stirring well to separate the seeds.
Squeeze the mixture through the cheesecloth again.
Add the resulting juice to the first mixture.
Sweeten the cream and sugar to taste.
Freeze as usual.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

210Calories

8 gProtein

8 gFat

28 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 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
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Seed	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 Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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.

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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.

Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,053 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together53,532 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together77,875 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

What each ingredient does

Berries: Provide the main strawberry flavour and the fruit base of the ice cream.
Sugar: Dissolves into the juice to add sweetness and soften the texture of the frozen dessert.
Milk: Adds creaminess and body to the frozen mixture.