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Tutti Frutti

A frozen custard dessert with raisins, strawberry preserves, whipped cream, and optional nuts or fruit.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,781 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Tutti Frutti

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. Prepare 1 gallon of rich boiled custard and sweeten to taste.

  2. Dissolve 2 tablespoons of gelatin in ½ cup of cold milk and add to the custard.

  3. Let the custard cool, then place it in a freezer.

Freeze and finish

  1. As soon as it begins to freeze, add 1 pound of raisins, 1 pint of strawberry preserves, and 1 quart of whipped cream.

  2. Stir and beat well until it has a creamy consistency.

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. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  2. Gelatin + creamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Sugar + gelatintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Strawberry + almondtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatin
Sets and stabilises the custard so the frozen dessert keeps a smooth, creamy texture.
Whipped cream
Adds fat and air, giving a lighter, creamier texture to the frozen mixture.
Strawberry preserves
Adds sweetness, fruit flavour and colour to the custard base.
Raisins
Add chewy texture and concentrated sweetness to the frozen dessert.

The step that matters

Stir and beat as it begins to freeze. Beating the custard while it partly freezes breaks up ice crystals and incorporates air, which keeps the texture creamy rather than icy. Adding the fruit and cream at this point distributes them evenly.

“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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