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Dessert Surpassing Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made with raspberry bromangelon, orange juice, boiling water, bananas, nuts, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and banana work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 125 recipes. Both carry ethyl benzoate, which smells fruity, sweet. The science ↓

Dessert Surpassing Ice Cream

six molds

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Combine raspberry bromangelon, orange juice, and boiling water in a bowl.

  2. Stir and let cool until not set.

  3. Add sliced bananas and nuts to the cooled mixture and stir lightly.

  4. Do not add sugar.

Set and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into six molds and let set.

  2. Turn the molds upside down and serve with cream.

  3. Top with whipped cream if desired.

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. Raspberry + bananatop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together125 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (fruity, sweet).

  2. Raspberry + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together521 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Orange + bananatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Banana + nutstop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).

  5. Raspberry + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Raspberry bromangelon
Gelatin-based setting agent that gives the dessert its firm, sliceable structure as it cools.
Bananas
Add natural sweetness, soft texture, and body to the set dessert.
Orange juice
Adds bright acidity that balances the sweetness of the raspberry flavour.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool until it is not set before adding the bananas. Bananas contain enzymes that can break down gelatin and weaken the set, so the mixture must be cooled but still liquid before the fruit goes in. Adding fruit while it is hot can also cause the bananas to soften and discolour.

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (raspberry, orange, banana, cream):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Pistachiofits better
  3. Hazelnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against raspberry, orange, banana, cream. 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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