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A creamy ice cream flavored with macaroons, coffee, and rum, studded with candied cherries, citron, and raisins.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and rum work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 138 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Ice Cream, Etc

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

  1. Dry 2 dozen macaroons in the oven, then roll them finely and sift.

  2. Whip 1 quart of cream until stiff, then mix with eggs and sugar.

  3. Stir in the powdered macaroons thoroughly.

Freeze

  1. Pour the mixture into a pre-cooled ice cream freezer, cover, and pack with ice and salt.

  2. Let it stand for 5 to 6 hours.

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. Coffee + rumtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together138 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Coffee + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  4. Milk + rumtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together967 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Macaroons
Crushed macaroons add sweet, toasted flavor and a fine, crumbly texture to the frozen mixture.
Cream
Whipped cream traps air and adds richness, giving a light, smooth frozen texture.
Eggs
Eggs add richness and help bind the mixture into a smooth, creamy base.
Sugar
Sugar sweetens the mixture and keeps ice crystals small for a softer texture.

The step that matters

Packing the freezer with ice and salt. Salt lowers the melting point of the ice, making the brine cold enough to freeze the mixture. The freezer must stay covered and packed so the cold stays even throughout.

Swap the raisin

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Bananafits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, coffee, milk, egg, rum. 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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