Name: Tutti Frutti Ice Cream
Ingredients: plain cream (any kind); crystallized fruit (chopped fine, equal quantity to ice cream); chopped citron; raisins; English currants; candied fruit; ice; salt; whipped cream (for serving)

Why it works: Raisin and currant are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,180 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, creamy. The science ↓

Tutti Frutti Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Partially freeze the plain cream.
Add an equal amount of chopped crystallized fruit.
Mix in chopped citron, raisins, English currants, or any candied fruit.
Transfer the mixture into a mold.
Pack the mold in ice and salt.
Serve with whipped cream around it.

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.

Raisin + curranttop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,180 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).
Cream + raisintop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,642 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Cream + curranttop 32% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,829 recipes