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Frozen Pudding or Tutti-frutti

A chilled dessert made from vanilla ice cream mixed with candied fruit and flavored with sherry or maraschino.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Plum and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 284 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Frozen Pudding or Tutti-frutti

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Make vanilla ice cream using heavy cream.

  2. After the ice cream is frozen, mix in the chopped candied fruits soaked in sherry or maraschino, and brandy if using.

  3. Turn the mixture into a mold.

Chill and serve

  1. Pack the mold in ice and coarse sea salt for two hours before serving, or serve directly from the freezer.

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. Plum + apricottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Vanilla + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together608 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Vanilla + plumtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together171 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Sherry + brandytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Vanilla + sherrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

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

What each ingredient does

Heavy cream
Adds fat and richness, giving the ice cream a smooth, creamy texture.
Candied fruits
Provide concentrated sweetness and chewy texture through the frozen base.
Sherry or maraschino
Adds aroma and flavor, and softens the fruit when it soaks.
Brandy
Adds aroma and flavor; its alcohol also keeps the frozen mixture softer.

The step that matters

Mixing the fruit into the frozen ice cream. Fold the soaked fruit in after the ice cream is firm but not rock-hard, so it spreads evenly. Alcohol lowers the freezing point, so the soaked fruit keeps the dessert softer and scoopable.

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vanilla, cream, apricot, sherry, brandy):

  1. Strawberryfits about as well
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Peachfits about as well
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vanilla, cream, apricot, sherry, brandy. 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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