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Custarp Ice CrEAM

A custard-based ice cream made with milk, sugar, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Custarp Ice CrEAM

Oven, in the book's wordsA very moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. Make a custard with the milk and sugar, then allow it to cool.

Churn

  1. Once cooled, add the cream to the custard.

  2. Churn the mixture in an ice cream maker until it reaches a velvety texture.

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.

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.

  1. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

  3. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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

Milk
Forms the custard base, providing liquid and body for the ice cream.
Sugar
Sweetens the custard and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice cream soft.
Cream
Adds fat, which makes the ice cream rich and smooth in texture.

The step that matters

Cooling the custard before adding the cream. Adding cream to a warm custard can curdle or thin the mixture and slow freezing. Letting the custard cool fully helps it churn to a smooth, velvety texture.

“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.

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