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Tutti Frutti Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made with heavy cream and assorted crystallized fruits.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and nuts work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 886 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Tutti Frutti Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Make a rich ice cream base and freeze until half frozen.

Add the fruit

  1. Add equal parts of six kinds of crystallized fruits and one variety of nuts or preserved fruits, all cut into small pieces and drained of syrup.

  2. Use 1 pound of fruit for every 2 quarts of cream.

  3. If the mixture is too sweet, add a little lemon juice.

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. Cream + nutstop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together886 recipes

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

  2. Nuts + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together470 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Cream + lemontop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,640 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,640 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

Heavy cream
Provides the fat that gives the ice cream a rich, smooth texture.
Crystallized fruits
Add sweetness and chewy bits of fruit flavour throughout the frozen cream.
Nuts or preserved fruits
Add crunch or extra fruit texture contrasting with the smooth base.

The step that matters

Drain the fruit of syrup and cut it small. Excess syrup adds water and sugar that freeze into icy pockets and can make the cream grainy. Small, drained pieces stay evenly distributed and keep the texture smooth.

Swap the lemon

The recipe marks lemon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, nuts):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, nuts. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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