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Raspberry Ice

A frozen dessert made from mashed raspberries, powdered sugar, water, lemon juice, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Raspberry Ice

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 ↓

Raspberry Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Macerate and strain

  1. Mash the raspberries and mix with 1 cup of powdered sugar.

  2. Let the mixture stand for at least 2 hours in the refrigerator.

  3. Strain through cheesecloth.

Finish and freeze

  1. Add the remaining powdered sugar, water, lemon juice, and cream.

  2. Freeze the mixture until solid.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + creamtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,640 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Red raspberries
Provide the main fruit flavor, color, and liquid for the base.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves into the fruit juice, softening the frozen texture.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the raspberry flavor and balances the sweetness.
Cream
Adds fat, which makes the frozen mixture smoother and creamier.

The step that matters

Let the raspberries stand with sugar. Sugar draws juice out of the mashed fruit and dissolves into it, so the mixture is sweet and evenly flavored before straining and freezing.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream. 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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