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Raspberry Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made with cream, milk, raspberry jam, lemon juice, and carmine coloring.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Raspberry Ice Cream

Why it works: Raspberry and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,109 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Raspberry Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Squeeze the juice from the lemon and add it to the raspberry jam.

  2. Combine the cream and milk in a basin and beat until mixed.

  3. Press the mixture through a sieve or strain it.

  4. Add carmine coloring to achieve the desired pink shade.

  5. Freeze the mixture according to your ice cream maker's instructions.

  6. Optionally, dissolve the jam in a little boiling water before straining and adding the other ingredients.

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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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. Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Milk + raspberrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,014 recipes

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

  3. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

  4. Cream + raspberrytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

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

  5. 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

Raspberry jam
Adds sweetness and concentrated raspberry flavor to the ice cream.
Cream
Provides fat for a rich, smooth texture.
Milk
Adds moisture and dilutes the richness of the cream.
Lemon
Its acidity brightens the raspberry flavor.

The step that matters

Press the mixture through a sieve or strain it. Straining removes seeds, pulp and any lumps of jam. Leftover solids can make the frozen ice cream grainy or uneven in texture.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, milk, raspberry. 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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