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Ice Cream

A custard-based ice cream flavored with wine and lemon, studded with blanched almonds, citron, brandy peaches, and other fruits.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Ice Cream

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 ↓

Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. In a pot, combine 3 quarts of rich milk with 2 ounces of isinglass and bring to a boil.

  2. Strain the mixture before adding any flavoring.

  3. Once cooled, flavor the custard with wine and lemon.

Freeze with fruit

  1. When the mixture is half frozen, stir in the blanched almonds, chopped citron, brandy peaches, and any other fruits.

  2. Fill the ice cream freezer half full with the custard and the other half with the fruit mixture.

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

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

  2. Almond + peachtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Wine + brandytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,427 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Milk + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  5. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Rich milk
Provides the base body, fat and creamy richness of the ice cream.
Isinglass
Gelatin-like setting agent that helps the custard firm up and hold its texture.
Brandy peaches
Add soft fruit texture and concentrated fruit flavor, softened by their brandy soaking.
Blanched almonds
Add crunch and nutty flavor that contrasts with the smooth frozen custard.

The step that matters

Stir in the fruit when the mixture is half frozen. If the custard is too liquid, heavy fruit and nuts sink and settle unevenly. Adding them once partly frozen suspends them through the rest of the churn.

Swap the raisin

The recipe marks raisin as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, wine, lemon, almond, brandy, peach):

  1. Apricotfits better
  2. Blackberryfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, wine, lemon, almond, brandy, peach. 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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