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Frozen Strawberries

A fruit dessert made by freezing strawberries with sugar, lemon juice, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and lemon 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. Wash the strawberries in a colander.

  2. Add sugar and lemon juice, then let it stand for 2 hours.

Freeze

  1. When ready to freeze, add water and mix well.

  2. Freeze for 4 hours.

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. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon 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
Draws moisture out of the berries and softens the texture once frozen, adding sweetness.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the strawberry flavor and helps keep its color.
Water
Adds liquid that helps form a looser, less solid frozen texture.

The step that matters

Letting the berries stand with sugar and lemon juice. Sugar draws juice out of the strawberries and dissolves into it, creating a syrup that flavors the fruit and affects how firm it freezes. Standing for the full time lets the sugar work through the fruit before freezing.

“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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