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Ioe Cream Candy

A boiled sugar candy made with sugar, water, and vinegar or lemon juice, pulled as it cools.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,404 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Ioe Cream Candy

Ingredients

Directions

Make the candy

  1. Combine sugar, vinegar (or lemon juice), water, and butter in an iron kettle.

  2. Do not stir.

  3. Place over a hot fire and boil until a drop in cold water becomes hard.

  4. To make chocolate candy, add grated chocolate when boiling.

  5. Add flavoring just before removing from heat.

Shape and pull

  1. Pour into buttered plates.

  2. Pull as soon as it can be handled.

  3. For taffy, boil for a shorter time.

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.

  1. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Sugar + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

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

  3. Butter + chocolatetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,543 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Vinegar + chocolatetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together481 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

White sugar
Forms the sweet base that hardens into the candy when boiled.
Vinegar or lemon juice
Acidity helps prevent the sugar from crystallising, keeping the candy smooth.
Butter
Adds fat for a richer flavour and a softer bite in the finished candy.

The step that matters

Do not stir. Stirring agitates the boiling sugar syrup and can trigger sugar crystals to form, making the candy grainy instead of smooth.

“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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