Name: Peaches and Cream Frozen
Ingredients: Peaches; Sugar; Cream; Berries or sliced fruit; Ice

Why it works: Sugar and cream 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 ↓

Peaches and Cream Frozen

Ingredients

Directions

Peel and quarter the peaches.
Mix the peaches with sugar and cream.
Line a charlotte mold with some peach quarters and fill it with the mixture.
Freeze until solid.
Line a mold with ice cream and fill the center with berries or sliced fruit.
Cover with more ice cream, seal tightly, and pack in ice for 30 minutes.
Ensure the fruit does not 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.

Explore the science

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.

Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together721 recipes

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