Why it works: Vanilla and strawberry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,385 recipes. Both carry p-vinylguaiacol, which smells spicy, fruity. The science ↓
Ice Cream
Ingredients
Directions
For Sicilian, layer orange juice outside and fill with vanilla cream.
For Printaniére, layer strawberry outside and fill with whipped cream and whole strawberries.
For Nesselrode, layer chestnut outside and fill with vanilla cream.
For Parisienne, layer strawberry outside and fill with whipped cream and preserved fruit.
For Santiago, layer pralines outside and fill with whipped cream flavored with rum.
For Jamaica, layer coffee outside and fill with whipped cream flavored with rum.
For Imperial, layer vanilla outside and fill with strawberry whipped cream.
For sorbets, add a little Italian meringue to the mixture.
To make Italian meringue, cook 1 cup of sugar until it beads, then mix with 3 egg whites.
For Roman Punch, add 2 spoonfuls of Italian meringue to lemon ice and a glass of rum just before serving.
For Imperial Punch, add kirsch and marasquin to pineapple ice just before serving.
For Champagne Punch, add cherries, pineapples, and diced peaches to Roman Punch.
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.
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Vanilla + strawberrytop 1% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,385 recipes
Shared aroma: p-vinylguaiacol (spicy, fruity).
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Vanilla + chestnuttop 2% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together244 recipes
Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
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Vanilla + rumtop 6% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together728 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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Orange + vanillatop 6% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,371 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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Strawberry + rumtop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together105 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the chestnut
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, vanilla, cream, strawberry, rum, coffee, sugar):
- Almondfits better
- Hazelnutfits about as well
- Cocoafits about as well
- Chestnutthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against orange, vanilla, cream, strawberry, rum, coffee, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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