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 ↓
Raspberry Jelly with Cream Ice
Ingredients
Directions
In a saucepan, combine the sugar, cold water, and lemon rind. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 10 minutes.
Stew until all the juice is extracted, then strain through a fine sieve.
Measure the juice and reheat, dissolving in the gelatine. Taste and add more sugar if needed, then strain into a basin.
If desired, add the sherry when the jelly is cool and pour into a mold to set.
In a double boiler, combine the milk, sugar, and lemon rind. Stir until the sugar dissolves, then let cool.
Whip the cream and stir it into the cooled milk mixture, then freeze.
Serve the cream ice alongside the raspberry jelly.
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.
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Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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Sherry + milktop 14% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,479 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).
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Lemon + milktop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together19,053 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Lemon + sherrytop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together3,273 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together29,399 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, sherry, milk, cream):
- Vanillafits better
- Strawberryfits better
- Figfits better
- Lemonthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, sherry, milk, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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