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Peach Ice

A frozen dessert made from peaches, sugar, water, currant jelly, and whipped egg whites.

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

Why it works: Peach and red currant work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 33 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Peach Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Cut half of the peaches into cherry-sized pieces and cook the other half.

Make the ice

  1. In a pot, combine water, sugar, peach kernels, and half the peaches; stew for a few minutes.

  2. Mash the fruit with a spoon, then add currant jelly and strain the mixture, discarding the kernels.

  3. Freeze the mixture as usual.

Finish and serve

  1. Whip the egg whites and mix them into the ice, then fold in the cut peaches.

  2. Line molds with cream and fill the center with peach ice, or serve cream in glasses with peach in the middle.

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. Peach + red curranttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

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

  3. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + red curranttop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,156 recipes

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

  5. Red currant + eggtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together345 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg whites
Whipped into the ice to lighten its texture and add airy body.
Currant jelly
Adds sweetness and a set-promoting pectin body to the peach base.
Sugar
Sweetens the base and keeps the ice softer after freezing.
Peaches
Provide the main flavor and fruity body of the ice.

The step that matters

Whip the egg whites and fold in the peaches. Egg whites must be whipped to stiff, airy peaks before mixing into the chilled ice, or the texture turns dense. Folding gently keeps the air and keeps the peach pieces intact.

Swap the red currant

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Red currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, sugar, egg. 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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