Name: Red Currant Fruit-ice
Ingredients: 2 pints ripe currants; 1 pint red raspberries; 1/2 pint water in a basin; 12 ounces of sugar; 1/2 pint of water

Why it works: Currant and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,256 recipes. The science ↓

Red Currant Fruit-ice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the fruit base

Put 2 pints ripe currants, 1 pint red raspberries, and 1/2 pint water into a basin.
Place the basin on the fire and allow to simmer for a few minutes, then strain through a hair sieve.

Sweeten and freeze

To the strained mixture add 12 ounces of sugar and 1/2 pint of water.
Place all into a freezing-can and freeze.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

175Calories

2 gProtein

1 gFat

44 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
Raspberry	1 cup (123g)	64
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Water	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 Margaret Brown. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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.

Currant + sugartop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together12,256 recipes

Currant and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,256 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

Ripe currants: Provide the main tart fruit flavour and colour for the ice.
Red raspberries: Add extra fruit aroma and sweetness to the currant base.
Sugar: Sweetens the mixture and lowers its freezing point so the ice stays softer.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.