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Ice Creams

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and saffron match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 306 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Ice Creams

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the juice of fruits with enough sugar to taste before adding the cream.

  2. For red coloring, pour hot water over sliced beet-root.

  3. For another red option, boil powdered cochineal with 1 teaspoon of cream of tartar in ½ cup of water, adding a pinch of alum while boiling.

  4. For white, use almond paste or cream.

  5. For yellow, use tincture of saffron.

  6. For green, use the expressed juice of spinach leaves.

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. Almond + saffrontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Saffron + spinachtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together149 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Almond + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together352 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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

  5. Cream + almondtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

Swap the spinach

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

  1. Beetrootfits about as well
  2. Spinachthe original
  3. Arrowrootfits about as well
  4. Sweet potatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream, almond, saffron. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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