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Frozen Strawberries

A frozen dessert made from strawberries, lemon juice, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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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 ↓

Frozen Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Add sugar and lemon juice to strawberries.

  2. Let the mixture sit for 1 hour.

  3. Mash the strawberries.

Freeze

  1. Add water and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved.

  2. Freeze the mixture slowly.

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. 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

Strawberries
Provide the main fruit flavor and bulk of the dessert.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and lowers its freezing point, keeping the texture softer.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the strawberry flavor and helps keep its color.

The step that matters

Freeze the mixture slowly. Slow freezing forms larger ice crystals, which gives a coarser, icier texture. Sugar dissolved fully beforehand helps the mixture freeze evenly and stay smooth.

“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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