Name: Fruit Ice Cream
Ingredients: ½ gallon fresh chopped peaches or fresh strawberries; sugar, to taste; ½ gallon sweet cream

Why it works: Sugar and cream 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 ↓

Fruit Ice Cream

Ingredients

½ gallon fresh chopped peaches or fresh strawberries
sugar, to taste
½ gallon sweet cream

Directions

Sweeten the chopped peaches or strawberries with sugar and let them stand overnight or for several hours.
Add the sweet cream to the fruit mixture.
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.

Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together721 recipes

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

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What each ingredient does

Sugar: Sweetens the fruit and draws out its juices, which helps flavor the base.
Sweet cream: Provides fat and richness, giving the ice cream a smooth, creamy texture.
Peaches or strawberries: Supply the main fruit flavor and some moisture to the frozen base.