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Caramel Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made from cream, sugar, and caramel.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Caramel Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Heat the cream in a saucepan.

  2. Dissolve the sugar and caramel in the heated cream.

  3. Allow the mixture to cool.

Freeze

  1. Freeze the cooled mixture until solid.

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 + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Provides fat, which gives the ice cream its rich, smooth body.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and keeps the frozen texture softer by lowering the freezing point.
Caramel
Adds deep, toasted caramel flavor and some sweetness.

The step that matters

Dissolve the sugar and caramel fully in the heated cream. Sugar that stays undissolved forms crystals as the mixture freezes, leaving the ice cream gritty. Heating the cream helps the sugar and caramel dissolve evenly, so the base stays 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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