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Currant and Raspberry Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made from currant juice, raspberry jam, milk, heavy cream, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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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 ↓

Currant and Raspberry Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix currant juice, raspberry jam, milk, cream, and sugar thoroughly.

  2. Freeze the mixture until solid.

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

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

  2. Currant + raspberrytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together366 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (fruity, sweet).

  3. Raspberry + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,014 recipes

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

  4. Raspberry + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

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

  5. Currant + milktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,475 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

What each ingredient does

Currant juice
Adds tart fruit flavor and acidity that brightens the sweet dairy base.
Raspberry jam
Adds fruit flavor and sweetness, and its sugar helps keep the frozen texture softer.
Milk
Supplies liquid and milk solids that give the ice cream a creamy body.
Heavy cream
Adds fat, which makes the ice cream smooth and rich in texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and lowers its freezing point, keeping it less icy.

Swap the currant

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against raspberry, milk, 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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