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Frozen Peaches and Cream

A frozen dessert made from peaches, sugar, lemon juice, and sweet cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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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 ↓

Frozen Peaches and Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. In a freezer, combine the peaches, sugar, and lemon juice.

  2. Add the sweet cream and churn until frozen.

Line the mold

  1. Line a brick mold with ladyfingers and place cooked citron on each.

  2. Cut citron into stems and petals, and place them at the bottom of the mold.

Pack and chill

  1. Cover the mixture with oiled paper and seal with the lid.

  2. Pack ice and salt around the mold and let it sit for two hours.

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

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

  2. Peach + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together947 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together721 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 flavor and body of the cream.
Sugar
Sweetens the cream and lowers its freezing point, keeping it softer when frozen.
Sweet cream
Adds fat and richness, giving a smooth, creamy texture.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the peach flavor.
Ladyfingers
Form a sponge-like lining that holds and supports the frozen cream in the mold.

The step that matters

Packing ice and salt around the mold. Salt lowers the melting point of the ice, so the brine becomes colder than plain ice and freezes the cream firmly. Too little salt or ice leaves the mixture soft and slow to set.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, sugar, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, sugar, 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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