Name: Peach Ice Cream
Ingredients: 1 quart milk; 2 eggs; sugar to taste; 1 quart peaches, peeled and pitted

Why it works: Milk and peach work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 781 recipes. Both carry phellandrene, which smells minty. The science ↓

Peach Ice Cream

Ingredients

1 quart milk
2 eggs
sugar to taste
1 quart peaches, peeled and pitted

Directions

Make the custard

In a bowl, combine the milk and eggs, then add sugar to taste.

Add the fruit and freeze

Mash the peaches and mix them into the custard.
Chill the mixture, then freeze it according to your ice cream maker's instructions.

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.

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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 + peachtop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together781 recipes

Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).
Sugar + peachtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

Smell alikelow

Cooked together77,875 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 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: Provides the liquid base and creamy body of the ice cream.
Eggs: Add richness and help the custard set smoothly as it thickens.
Sugar: Sweetens the base and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer.
Peaches: Supply the fruit flavor and aroma, and add moisture and body.