Name: Raspberry Ice
Ingredients: 4 cups water; 2 cups raspberry juice; 2 cups sugar; 2 lemons (juiced)

Why it works: Raspberry and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,109 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Raspberry Ice

Ingredients

4 cups water
2 cups raspberry juice
2 cups sugar
2 lemons (juiced)

Directions

Make the mixture

Mix raspberry juice, lemon juice, and sugar in a bowl.
Let the mixture stand for 1 hour.
Strain the mixture through a wire sieve.
Add water and stir well.

Freeze

Freeze 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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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.

Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,109 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together53,532 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,101 recipes

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

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: Sweetens the mix and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice softer.
Raspberry juice: Provides the main flavour and colour of the ice.
Lemons: Add acidity that brightens the raspberry flavour.