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Peach Ice

A frozen dessert made from peaches, sugar, water, red currant jelly, and egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Peach Ice

Why it works: Peach and red currant work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 33 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Peach Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Cut half of the peaches into pieces the size of cherries.

  2. In a saucepan, combine water, sugar, chopped peach kernels, and the other half of the peaches; boil for a few minutes.

Make the mixture

  1. Mash the peaches with the back of a spoon, then stir in the currant jelly.

  2. Remove the kernels and strain the mixture into a freezer.

Freeze and serve

  1. Freeze the mixture, adding the beaten egg whites when it is almost frozen, along with the cut-up peaches.

  2. Serve plain or with vanilla ice cream in individual dishes, with peach ice piled in the center.

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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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. Peach + red curranttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  2. Sugar + coffeetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,344 recipes

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

  3. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

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

  4. Peach + coffeetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  5. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Ripe peaches
Provide the main fruit flavour, sweetness and moisture that freeze into the ice.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice softer and scoopable.
Egg whites
Trap air when beaten and folded in, giving the ice a lighter, less dense texture.
Red currant jelly
Adds tart fruit flavour and body to the peach base.

The step that matters

Adding the egg whites when almost frozen. If the whites go in too early they dilute the mixture, and if the ice is fully solid they cannot be worked in evenly. Adding them at a near-frozen, slushy stage lets them whip into the mixture and trap air, keeping the texture light.

Swap the red currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, sugar, coffee, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Red currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, sugar, coffee, egg. 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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