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Orange Ice

A frozen dessert made from orange peel, juice, sugar, water, and whipped egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Orange Ice

Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Orange Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup and flavouring

  1. Make a thick syrup with sugar and a little water.

  2. Peel half the oranges.

  3. Divide the peeled oranges.

  4. Add the divided oranges to the boiling syrup.

  5. Grate the yellow peel of the remaining oranges into a bowl.

  6. Squeeze the juice of the remaining oranges into the bowl.

  7. Strain the syrup from the scalded orange slices into the bowl.

  8. Add water and lemon juice to the orange syrup. Strain.

Freeze and finish

  1. Freeze.

  2. Beat in the whipped egg whites.

  3. Stir in the sugared fruit before serving.

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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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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + eggtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Sugar + orangetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 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

Oranges
Provide the main fruit flavour and juice, while the grated peel adds aroma.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and, in the syrup, helps keep the frozen texture smooth.
Egg whites
Whipped whites trap air, giving the ice cream a lighter, airier texture.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the orange flavour.

The step that matters

Beating in the whipped egg whites. Whipped egg whites hold air that makes the ice cream light. Beating them in too hard or too long deflates that foam, leaving the ice cream dense and heavy after freezing.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, lemon, egg):

  1. Orangethe original
  2. Vanillafits about as well
  3. Limefits less well
  4. Raisinfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, lemon, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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