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Tutti-frutti Ice Cream

A custard-based ice cream flavored with sherry, candied cherries, and candied pineapple.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange 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 ↓

Tutti-frutti Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs well.

  2. Add the milk and sugar, and mix until combined.

  3. Chill the mixture until cold.

  4. Stir in the heavy cream.

Freeze

  1. Freeze the mixture until it is half frozen.

  2. Add the sherry, candied cherries, and candied pineapple, mixing well.

  3. Continue to freeze until fully set.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Sherry + pineappletop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together228 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

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

  5. Milk + pineappletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together885 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide structure and richness, helping the custard-style base set smoothly when frozen.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and softens the texture by keeping ice crystals small.
Heavy cream
Adds fat, giving the ice cream a smooth, rich mouthfeel.
Milk
Provides the liquid base and moisture that freezes into the ice cream.
Candied cherries
Add sweetness, color and chewy pieces throughout the frozen base.
Candied pineapple
Adds sweetness, fruity flavor and chewy pieces throughout the frozen base.

The step that matters

Freeze the mixture until it is half frozen before adding the fruit. Adding the sherry and candied fruit at the half-frozen stage keeps the fruit evenly distributed, because a fully liquid base would let heavy pieces sink. Fully freezing before mixing would make the base too stiff to stir well.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk, sugar, cream, sherry, pineapple, orange. 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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