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Orange Ice

A frozen beverage made from orange juice, lemon juice, and a sugar syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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

  1. Combine sugar and water in a pot to make a syrup.

  2. Skim the syrup well and let it cool.

Add the flavours

  1. Juice the oranges and add the juice to the cooled syrup.

  2. Boil the rinds of the oranges in water, then strain the water into the syrup.

  3. Add the juice and rind of the lemon in the same way.

Freeze

  1. Freeze the mixture until solid.

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.

  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. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

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

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

Sugar
Sweetens the ice and lowers its freezing point so it stays softer and scoopable.
Oranges
Supply the main juice and aromatic oil from the peel, giving flavour and sweetness.
Lemon
Adds acidity that brightens the orange flavour.

The step that matters

Skim the syrup well and let it cool. Skimming removes foam and impurities that would cloud the ice and affect its texture. Cooling the syrup before adding juice prevents heat from damaging the fresh juice's flavour and keeps the mixture from melting or separating prematurely.

“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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