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Chocolate Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made from milk, eggs, sugar, chocolate, vanilla, and cream, optionally with preserved peaches.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 558 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Chocolate Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. Rub the grated chocolate into the milk until smooth.

  2. Add the beaten eggs and sugar, then beat well.

  3. Cook the mixture in a double boiler until thickened.

  4. Cool the mixture.

  5. Flavor with vanilla.

Freeze

  1. Put the mixture in a freezer.

  2. When it begins to set, add the rich cream.

  3. If desired, add the preserved peaches when the cream is almost frozen.

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. Vanilla + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together558 recipes

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

  2. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Chocolate + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

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

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

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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

Eggs
Thicken the custard when cooked and help give the ice cream a smooth, rich body.
Rich cream
Adds fat and richness, giving a smoother texture and softer bite to the frozen ice cream.
Sugar
Sweetens the base and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer when frozen.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the chocolate, eggs and sugar are combined into.

The step that matters

Cook the mixture in a double boiler until thickened. Gentle heat lets the egg proteins thicken the base slowly. Overheating can curdle the eggs and leave a grainy texture in the finished ice cream.

Swap the peach

The recipe marks peach as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, milk, egg, sugar, vanilla, cream):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Peachthe original

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