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 ↓
Strawberry Ice Cream
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the strawberries
Wash the strawberries.
Mix strawberries with 1 cup sugar and salt. Let stand.
Make the syrup and base
In a saucepan, cook the remaining 1 cup sugar in ½ cup water for 5 minutes to make a syrup.
Add the syrup to the cream and freeze the mixture.
Freeze and pack
When nearly frozen, remove the cover.
Add the crushed strawberries, mixing thoroughly.
Finish freezing the ice cream and pack it.
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.
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Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Strawberries
- Provide the main flavour and fruit body, and sugar draws out their juices.
- Cream
- Supplies fat that makes the ice cream rich and smooth in texture.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the base and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer.
The step that matters
Adding the strawberries near the end of freezing. Adding the fruit when the mixture is nearly frozen and mixing it thoroughly spreads the pieces evenly. Fully frozen cream is too stiff to blend in, and the sugar in the syrup helps keep the texture soft.
“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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