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Tutti Frutti

A frozen dessert made with cream, almonds, sugar, preserved fruits, raisins, and citron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and raisin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,781 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Tutti Frutti

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. In a bowl, combine the cream, chopped almonds, and sugar.

  2. Freeze the mixture until it is sufficiently congealed.

Add the fruit and freeze

  1. Cut the preserved fruits, raisins, and citron into small pieces.

  2. Mix the fruit well with the frozen cream mixture.

  3. Freeze again like ice cream and keep on ice until ready to serve.

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. Almond + raisintop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

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

  4. Cream + almondtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  5. Almond + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,679 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Rich cream
Provides fat and richness, giving the ice cream its smooth, creamy body.
Sweet almonds
Add nutty flavour and a bit of texture within the frozen cream.
Sugar
Sweetens the base and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer.
Preserved fruits
Provide concentrated fruity sweetness and chewy pieces throughout the ice cream.

The step that matters

Freeze the mixture until sufficiently congealed. The base must be partly frozen before the fruit is folded in. If it is fully solid, the fruit will not mix evenly; if it is too liquid, the pieces will sink and the texture will stay loose.

Swap the raisin

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinthe original
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Coconutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, almond, sugar. 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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