Name: Fruit Icing
Ingredients: white sugar frosting; Gumpert's Genuine Fruit Icing Cream

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 ↓

Fruit Icing

Ingredients

white sugar frosting
Gumpert's Genuine Fruit Icing Cream

Directions

Make your regular white sugar frosting.
Mix in a very small quantity of Gumpert's Genuine Fruit Icing Cream until you achieve the desired color. This will also flavor the icing better than any extract on the market.

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.

Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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What each ingredient does

White sugar frosting: Forms the sweet, creamy base that the fruit icing cream is mixed into.
Gumpert's genuine fruit icing cream: Colors and flavors the frosting, as the record states it does better than any extract.

“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.