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Orange Ice with Tutti Frutti

A frozen dessert made of orange ice, egg white, tutti frutti, and butter, molded and decorated with gelatine paste.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and melon work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 153 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Orange Ice with Tutti Frutti

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the molds

  1. Beat the egg white until smooth and fold it into the orange ice.

  2. Spread the orange ice evenly inside the melon molds.

  3. Embed the molds in freezing mixture until the coating is firm.

Fill and freeze

  1. Fill the molds with tutti frutti and spread more orange ice on top.

  2. Secure the molds with lids and rubber bands, sealing all spaces with butter.

  3. Place the molds back in the freezing mixture for 2 to 3 hours.

Serve

  1. To serve, wash the outsides with a cloth dipped in tepid water and carefully turn out onto a folded napkin.

  2. Decorate with gelatine paste and 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.

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. Orange + melontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together153 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Melon + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together69 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Orange + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,301 recipes

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

  5. Orange + eggtop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Orange and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,696 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

Orange ice
Forms the frozen body of the dessert and carries its flavour.
Egg white
Adds air and body to the orange ice, giving a lighter, smoother texture.
Butter
Seals gaps around the lids so the mold stays closed while freezing.
Tutti frutti
Adds candied fruit pieces that contrast in texture and sweetness with the ice.

The step that matters

Turn out the mold carefully. Brief contact with tepid water loosens the frozen outer layer from the mold without melting it. Too much heat or force can soften the ice and break the shape.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, melon, butter. 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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