Name: Ice Cream
Ingredients: 1 quart rich cream; sweetener to taste; flavoring to taste; ½ pint milk (if cream is very rich)

Why it works: Cream and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,399 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Ice Cream

Ingredients

1 quart rich cream
sweetener to taste
flavoring to taste
½ pint milk (if cream is very rich)

Directions

Make the base

Sweeten and flavor the cream to taste.
If the cream is very rich, add a scant pint of milk.

Freeze

Pour the mixture into a freezer.
Turn the crank evenly until frozen.

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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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.

Cream + milktop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rich cream: Provides the fat that gives the ice cream its smooth, rich body.
Milk: Thins very rich cream slightly, lightening the texture of the finished ice cream.

“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.