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Maple Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made from maple syrup, eggs, milk, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,399 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Maple Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. Beat the egg yolks until light and mix with the maple syrup.

  2. Heat the mixture over low heat, stirring constantly until thick.

Freeze

  1. Once cooled, add the milk and cream, then pour into a freezer.

  2. When half frozen, fold in the beaten egg whites.

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

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

  2. Maple syrup + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together798 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

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

  4. Maple syrup + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together607 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Egg + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Egg and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 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

Egg yolks
Thicken the custard and enrich it, giving the ice cream a smooth, creamy body.
Maple syrup
Provides the sweetness and the main maple flavor.
Egg whites
Whipped and folded in, they add airiness and a lighter texture.
Cream
Adds fat, which keeps the ice cream smooth and rich rather than icy.
Milk
Adds liquid and dairy body, balancing the richness of the cream.

The step that matters

Heat the mixture until thick. Stirring constantly over low heat keeps the egg yolks from scrambling. Gentle heat slowly thickens the custard, and overheating can curdle it into lumps.

“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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