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Strawberry or Other Fruit Iced Custard

A chilled custard mixed with fruit, sweetened to taste.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 168 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Strawberry or Other Fruit Iced Custard

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. Prepare a quart of rich boiled custard.

  2. Let the custard cool.

Prepare the fruit

  1. Pour the cooled custard over a quart of ripe fruit.

  2. Mash the fruit.

  3. Pass the mashed fruit through a sieve.

  4. Sweeten the mixture to taste.

Freeze and finish

  1. Freeze the mixture.

  2. Fill the freezer partly with ice cream.

  3. Stir in small or large pieces of fruit before it becomes too stiff.

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. Peach + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together168 recipes

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

  2. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rich boiled custard
Provides a creamy, smooth base that gives the iced custard its body.
Ripe fruit
Adds fruit flavour, natural sweetness and moisture to the base.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and softens the texture of the frozen dessert.

The step that matters

Stir in fruit before it becomes too stiff. Adding fruit pieces while the mixture is still partly soft lets them distribute evenly. If it freezes solid first, the pieces sit unevenly and the texture turns icy and hard.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, 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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