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Baked-apple Ice Cream

A dessert made from baked apples, sugar, water, cream, milk, and red sugar, then frozen.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Baked-apple Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the apples

  1. Bake the apples until soft.

  2. Combine the baked apples, sugar, and water in a pot and cook until well baked.

  3. Pass the mixture through a sieve.

Make and freeze the ice cream

  1. Add the cream and milk to the apple mixture.

  2. Sweeten to taste and color with red sugar.

  3. 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.

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

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

  2. Apple + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  3. Cream + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

  4. Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

Apple and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 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

Baked apples
Provide the main apple flavor and bulk, and their pulp gives the ice cream body.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps keep the frozen mixture softer and scoopable.
Rich cream
Adds fat, which makes the ice cream smooth and rich in texture.
Milk
Adds dairy liquid that softens the flavor and lightens the texture.

The step that matters

Pass the mixture through a sieve. Sieving removes skins, cores and fibrous lumps, so the ice cream freezes smooth rather than grainy.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream, milk. 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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