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Fruit Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made with whipped cream, pecans, orange juice, pineapple, candied cherries, and sherry wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and pineapple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,664 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Fruit Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Whip the cream until stiff.

  2. In a large bowl, combine the whipped cream, pecans, orange juice or pulp, grated pineapple, and chopped candied cherries that have been soaked in sherry wine for an hour.

  3. Add sherry wine and sugar to taste.

Freeze and serve

  1. Freeze the mixture until nearly hard.

  2. Remove the mixer and fold in the nuts and fruits.

  3. Pack the mixture well and freeze for 3 to 4 hours.

  4. To serve, turn out of the mold onto a cold platter and slice like cake.

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. Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Pineapple + sherrytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together228 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Pineapple + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together325 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Pecans + pineappletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together294 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Pure cream
Whipped to stiff peaks, it gives the frozen dessert its light, airy body.
Pecans
Chopped nuts add crunch and a toasty, rich flavour against the soft frozen base.
Pineapple
Grated pineapple adds moisture and bright, sweet fruit flavour throughout.
Candied cherries
Sugared fruit adds chewy sweetness and colour, softened by soaking in sherry.
Oranges
Juice or pulp adds acidity and fresh citrus aroma that balances the sweetness.

The step that matters

Folding in the nuts and fruits. Fold gently so the whipped cream keeps its air. Overmixing deflates it, leaving a dense, icy texture after freezing.

Swap the pecans

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Pistachiofits better
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, orange, pineapple, sherry, wine, sugar. 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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