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
Mash the strawberries and mix with ½ cup of sugar.
Let the mixture stand for 30 minutes.
Make the cream base
Scald 1 pint of cream and mix in 8 ounces of sugar.
Allow the mixture to cool.
Add the additional pint of cream to the cooled mixture.
Freeze
Turn the mixture in the freezer until very hard, then add the mashed strawberries.
Turn the crank again until the mixture is well frozen.
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 fruity body of the ice cream.
- Granulated sugar
- Sweetens the dish and softens the freezing texture by lowering the freezing point.
- Cream
- Adds fat that gives the ice cream a smooth, rich texture.
The step that matters
Turn the mixture in the freezer until very hard, then add the mashed strawberries.. Adding the fruit to a base that is not yet firm lets it sink or freeze unevenly and can dilute the texture. Chilling the base first helps the fruit distribute evenly and keeps the final ice cream smooth.
“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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