Name: Maraschino Ice Cream
Ingredients: Neapolitan ice cream; Maraschino cherries; 20 drops almond extract; Maraschino liquor; Cherry blossoms and foliage for garnish

Why it works: Almond and cherry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 672 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Maraschino Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Just before the Neapolitan ice cream stiffens, add a pinch of Maraschino cherries and 20 drops of almond extract.
Turn the freezer 5 times and let it stand.
When serving, pour a spoonful of Maraschino liquor over each dish of ice cream.
Garnish with cherry blossoms and foliage on the plates.

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.

Almond + cherrytop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together672 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Cream + almondtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,130 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).
Cream + cherrytop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together827 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).