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Neapolitan Ices

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and strawberry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,385 recipes. Both carry p-vinylguaiacol, which smells spicy, fruity. The science ↓

Neapolitan Ices

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a Neapolitan ice-box mold.

  2. Layer the ingredients: start with vanilla cream, then add raspberry, cherry, or currant water.

  3. Add coffee or chocolate in the middle.

  4. Top with strawberry cream and finish with lemon, orange, or pineapple water.

  5. Imbed the filled mold in ice.

  6. Once set, turn out and slice downwards, then cut slices in the opposite direction for serving.

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. Vanilla + strawberrytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,385 recipes

    Shared aroma: p-vinylguaiacol (spicy, fruity).

  2. Vanilla + cherrytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together890 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Raspberry + strawberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together815 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  4. Vanilla + raspberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together950 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (fruity, sweet).

  5. Coffee + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vanilla, cream, raspberry, cherry, coffee, chocolate, strawberry):

  1. Blackberryfits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vanilla, cream, raspberry, cherry, coffee, chocolate, strawberry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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