Name: Peach Ice Cream
Ingredients: 4 cups fresh ripe peaches, cut; 1 cup sugar; 4 cups fresh cream, sweetened to taste

Why it works: Sugar and cream 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 ↓

Peach Ice Cream

Ingredients

4 cups fresh ripe peaches, cut
1 cup sugar
4 cups fresh cream, sweetened to taste

Directions

Prepare

Place the cut peaches on a china dish and sprinkle with sugar.
Let the peaches sit for 1 hour.

Freeze

Add the sweetened cream to the peaches.
Pour the mixture into a mold and freeze.

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.

Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together721 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

Peaches: Provide the main fruit flavour and, once macerated, their juices sweeten and perfume the cream.
Sugar: Sweetens the peaches and draws out their juice, helping build the flavour base.
Fresh cream: Adds richness and fat, giving the frozen ice cream a smooth, creamy texture.