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Frozen Strawberries

Frozen strawberries are ripe strawberries mashed with sugar, frozen, and served with whipped cream or ice cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mash the ripe strawberries in a bowl.

  2. Add sugar to taste, sweeter than for serving fresh.

  3. Let the mixture stand until the juice is drawn out.

Freeze and serve

  1. Freeze the strawberry mixture.

  2. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream.

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).

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

What each ingredient does

Ripe strawberries
Provide the main fruit flavor, juice and body of the dessert.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out its juice, which softens the frozen texture.
Whipped cream or ice cream
Adds richness and a cool, creamy contrast to the tart fruit.

The step that matters

Let the mixture stand until the juice is drawn out. Sugar pulls water out of the strawberries by osmosis, creating syrup. Freezing before this stage leaves more free water, which forms larger ice crystals and a harder, icier texture.

“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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