Name: Peach Ice Cream
Ingredients: 2 cups heavy cream; 4-6 ripe peaches; Sugar to taste

Why it works: Cream and sugar 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

2 cups heavy cream
4-6 ripe peaches
Sugar to taste

Directions

Prepare

Prepare the cream as you would for vanilla ice cream.
Chop the soft peaches into small pieces.
Sweeten the peaches to your taste.

Combine and freeze

Mix the sweetened peaches with the cream.
Freeze the mixture until firm.

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.

Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Cream + peachtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together721 recipes

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

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What each ingredient does

Heavy cream: Its fat gives the ice cream a rich, smooth, creamy texture.
Ripe peaches: They supply the main fruit flavor and some moisture to the base.
Sugar: It adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer.