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Strawberry Water Ice

A frozen dessert made from strawberries, water, lemon juice, clarified syrup, and optional flavoring and coloring.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Strawberry Water Ice

Why it works: Strawberry jam and strawberry work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 62 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Strawberry Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the base

  1. Add the pulp from the strawberries or the strawberry jam to the water.

  2. Mix in the lemon juice and clarified syrup to taste.

  3. If needed, add a drop or two of strawberry essence and a few drops of cochineal for color.

  4. Strain the mixture through a sieve and freeze it.

Freeze and set

  1. Place the mixture in a freezer, cover it, and pack it well around the sides.

  2. Turn the freezer briskly for a few minutes, then scrape down the sides with a spatula.

  3. Continue to turn and scrape until the mixture is a smooth, firm mass.

  4. Cover and let it set until ready to serve.

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. Strawberry jam + strawberrytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together62 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Lemon + strawberrytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,206 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Syrup + strawberrytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together332 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Lemon + syruptop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Strawberry jam + syruptop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together23 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries or strawberry jam
Provide the main strawberry flavor and fruit body of the ice.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the strawberry flavor and balances sweetness.
Clarified syrup
Sweetens the ice and lowers its freezing point so it stays softer.

The step that matters

Turn and scrape until smooth and firm. Frequent turning and scraping break up ice crystals as they form. Stopping early leaves a coarse, icy texture instead of a smooth one.

Swap the strawberry

The recipe marks strawberry as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (strawberry jam, lemon, syrup):

  1. Raspberryfits better
  2. Orangefits about as well
  3. Vanillafits about as well
  4. Strawberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against strawberry jam, lemon, syrup. 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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