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Ice Cream

Why it works: Coconut and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,223 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix all ingredients together.

  2. Add grated coconut or pineapple when ready to freeze.

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. Coconut + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,223 recipes

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

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

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