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Strawberry

A frozen strawberry dessert made by jamming strawberries, adding sugar, lemon, water, and cold cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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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 ↓

Strawberry

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Jam the strawberries with a spoon.

  2. Sprinkle the sugar over the strawberries.

  3. Squeeze the lemon juice over the mixture and add coloring if desired.

  4. Let it stand for 1 hour.

  5. Sift through a fine sieve or press the juice through a cloth.

  6. If the sugar hasn't melted, stir it into the fruit.

Make and freeze

  1. Add the water and stir this juice into the cold prepared cream.

  2. Freeze immediately.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Lemon + creamtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,640 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Strawberries
Provide the main flavour and juice that gives the ice cream its colour and taste.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out its juice as it stands.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the strawberry flavour and helps keep its colour.
Cream
Supplies fat that gives the frozen ice cream a smooth, rich texture.

The step that matters

Freeze immediately. Once the strawberry juice is mixed into the cream, the mixture should be frozen right away so that ice crystals stay small and the texture remains smooth rather than icy or separated.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream. 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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