Name: Frozen Fruits or Berries
Ingredients: 4 cups ripe fruits or berries; ¾ pound powdered sugar; juice of 1 or more oranges

Why it works: Sugar and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Frozen Fruits or Berries

Ingredients

4 cups ripe fruits or berries
¾ pound powdered sugar
juice of 1 or more oranges

Directions

Select the ripest fruits or berries and reduce them to a pulp.
Add ¾ pound of powdered sugar and the juice of 1 or more oranges to the pulp.
Freeze the mixture.

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 + orangetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together19,212 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Sugar and orange barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Ripe fruits or berries: Provide the main flavour, colour and bulk of the pudding.
Powdered sugar: Adds sweetness and dissolves easily into the pulp, softening the frozen texture.
Orange juice: Adds acidity and bright flavour that balances the sweetness of the sugar.

“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.