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Okange Ice

A frozen orange beverage made with orange juice, lemon, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Okange Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Combine sugar and water in a pot.

  2. Skim off any foam.

  3. Let the syrup cool.

Prepare the flavorings

  1. Juice the oranges.

  2. Add the orange juice to the cooled syrup.

  3. Boil the orange rinds in water.

  4. Strain the water into the syrup.

  5. Juice the lemon.

  6. Add the lemon juice and rind to the syrup.

Freeze

  1. Freeze the 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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

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

  3. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

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

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

Sugar
Dissolves into the water to form a syrup that sweetens the ice and keeps it from freezing rock-hard.
Oranges
Supply the main juice and aroma; their rinds add extra fragrant oils when boiled.
Lemon
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness and sharpens the orange flavor.

The step that matters

Let the syrup cool. Adding juice to hot syrup can dull the fresh citrus flavor and alter the mixture before freezing. Cooling the syrup first keeps the orange taste bright and fresh.

“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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