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Strawberry Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made from strawberry juice, cream, and sweetened strawberries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Strawberry Ice Cream

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 ↓

Strawberry Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the strawberry base

  1. Sprinkle strawberries with sugar, wash well, and rub through a sieve to obtain the juice.

  2. Add ½ pint of cream to the juice and sweeten.

  3. Freeze the mixture.

Finish and freeze

  1. When it begins to set, stir in 1 pint of whipped cream and a handful of sweetened whole strawberries.

  2. Put the mixture in a mold and embed it in ice or keep it in the freezer.

Alternative method

  1. Mash 1 quart of strawberries with 1 pound of sugar in an earthen bowl.

  2. Rub the mash through a colander.

  3. Add 1 quart of sweet cream to the mash.

  4. Freeze the mixture.

  5. If strawberries are out of season, use fresh bottled or canned strawberries.

  6. Mix the juice with ½ pint of cream, sweeten, and freeze.

  7. When partially set, add whipped cream and strawberries.

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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Explore the science

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

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

  2. Strawberry + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,525 recipes

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

  3. Strawberry + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,060 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the flavour, colour and juice that form the base of the ice cream.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and softens the texture of the frozen ice cream.
Cream
Adds richness and fat, giving the frozen ice cream a smooth, creamy texture.
Whipped cream
Adds air and lightness, making the finished ice cream less dense.

The step that matters

Stir in the whipped cream when the mixture begins to set. If the base is still liquid, the whipped cream and strawberries will sink or separate. If it is frozen solid, they will not blend in evenly. Stirring at the partly set stage keeps the air and fruit evenly distributed.

Swap the strawberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberrythe original
  3. Raspberryfits about as well
  4. Raisinfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, 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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