Name: Raspberry Ice
Ingredients: 1 quart raspberries; 2 lemons; 1 pound sugar

Why it works: Lemon and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Raspberry Ice

Ingredients

1 quart raspberries
2 lemons
1 pound sugar

Directions

Make the ice

Juice the raspberries and lemons.
Mix the juice with the sugar until dissolved.
Freeze the mixture until solid.

Garnish and serve

Cut the stems long enough to show the red wood and thorns.
Keep flowers in the ice box until serving, and dip in ice water before placing on the plate.
Optionally, add a spray of flowers for decoration.
Serve with a spray of berries and foliage on the plate beside the punch cup.

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.

Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together53,532 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Raspberries: Provide the main flavour and the red colour of the ice.
Lemons: Add acidity that brightens the sweetness and the raspberry flavour.
Sugar: Sweetens the juice and lowers its freezing point so it stays softer when frozen.

“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.