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Strawberry Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made from sweet cream, powdered sugar, boiled sweet milk, strawberries, eggs, arrowroot, ice, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Strawberry Ice Cream

Why it works: Cream and sugar 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 ↓

Strawberry Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the base

  1. Mix the sweet cream, powdered sugar, boiled sweet milk, strained strawberries, beaten eggs, and arrowroot together.

  2. Strain the mixture through a sieve into an ice cream freezer and cover tightly.

Freeze and serve

  1. In a separate container, layer the broken ice and coarse salt.

  2. Freeze the mixture for 30 minutes, then let it stand for 2 hours before serving.

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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Cream + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Milk + arrowroottop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together817 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  4. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

Sugar and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Add richness and help the custard-style base set smoothly when frozen.
Sweet cream
Supplies fat, which gives the ice cream a smooth, rich texture.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the base and lowers the freezing point, keeping the texture softer.
Arrowroot
Thickens the base and helps prevent large ice crystals from forming.
Strawberries
Provide the main flavour and fruit acidity to the mixture.

The step that matters

Layering the ice and coarse salt. Salt lowers the melting point of the ice, making the brine cold enough to freeze the mixture; too little salt or ice means the base will freeze slowly or not at all.

Swap the arrowroot

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Arrowrootthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, milk, 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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