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Creme De the — Tea Cream Ice

A chilled ice cream made with heavy cream, brewed tea, sugar, and vanilla extract.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Creme De the — Tea Cream Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. In a bowl, combine heavy cream, brewed tea, sugar, and vanilla extract.

  2. Whisk until the sugar is dissolved and the mixture is well combined.

Churn and freeze

  1. Pour the mixture into an ice cream maker and churn according to the manufacturer's instructions.

  2. Transfer to a container and freeze until firm.

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.

  1. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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

  3. Tea + vanillatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together170 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Cream + vanillatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,301 recipes

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

  5. Cream + teatop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together463 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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 fat, which gives the ice cream its rich, smooth texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the base and keeps the ice cream softer by lowering its freezing point.
Brewed tea
Supplies the main flavor and liquid for the base.

The step that matters

Whisk until the sugar is dissolved. Undissolved sugar crystals can remain gritty in the frozen ice cream and leave the sweetness uneven. Fully dissolved sugar keeps the texture smooth and the base evenly sweetened.

“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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