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Orange Ice with Raspberry Sauce

A chilled dessert made from cream, milk, orange juice, and sugar, topped with raspberry sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar 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 ↓

Orange Ice with Raspberry Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Make the ice cream

  1. Combine heavy cream, milk, orange juice, and sugar in a bowl; mix well.

  2. Freeze the mixture in individual molds.

Make the raspberry sauce

  1. For the raspberry sauce, mash the raspberries and mix with powdered sugar.

  2. Boil the raspberry mixture for 3 minutes, then press through a sieve and cool.

Serve

  1. To serve, decorate with candied violets, cherries, or shredded coconut, or place a tiny flag in each mold.

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

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

  2. Milk + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Cream + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

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

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

Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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

Heavy cream
Adds fat and richness, giving the frozen ice cream a smooth, creamy texture.
Milk
Adds moisture and dairy solids that help make the frozen texture softer and creamier.
Orange juice
Adds acidity and bright citrus aroma, flavouring the base of the ice cream.
Sugar
Sweetens the base and lowers its freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer when frozen.
Red raspberries
Provide the fruit flavour and body of the sauce once mashed and pressed.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the raspberry sauce and blends smoothly into the mashed fruit.

The step that matters

Boil the raspberry mixture for 3 minutes, then press through a sieve and cool. Boiling softens and concentrates the raspberry pulp, and pressing through a sieve removes seeds and fibre so the sauce is smooth. Cooling thickens it before serving.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, milk, 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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