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Peach Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made from mashed peaches, sugar, eggs, milk, and cream.

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

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 ↓

Peach Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Peel the peaches and remove the pits.

  2. Add the sugar to the peaches and mash thoroughly with a wooden masher.

  3. Place the mixture in a double thickness of cheesecloth and squeeze out all the juice to make a syrup.

Make the custard base

  1. Beat the eggs until light, then stir in the hot milk.

  2. Once the mixture is cold, combine all ingredients thoroughly.

Freeze

  1. Prepare the ice cream freezer by icing it and sprinkling it with salt.

  2. Pour the mixture into the freezer and chill for about 5 minutes.

  3. Then, 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. Milk + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  3. Sugar + peachtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

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

  4. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

  5. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 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

Peaches
Provide the main fruit flavor and aroma, and juice for the syrup.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and softens the texture of the frozen ice cream.
Eggs
Add richness and help give the custard body and structure.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that carries the flavors and dissolves the sugar.
Cream
Adds fat, which makes the frozen ice cream smooth and creamy.

The step that matters

Freezing with ice and salt. The ice and salt in the freezer must stay cold so the mixture freezes evenly. Salt lowers the temperature of the ice, and cold, steady freezing keeps ice crystals small, giving a smoother texture.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits about as well
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, milk, 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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