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Mille Fruit Iced Cream

A chilled fruit ice cream made with lemon juice, orange marmalade, cherries, angelica, syrup, cream, and cochineal.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Mille Fruit Iced Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Strain the juice of the lemons and grate the peel.

  2. Mince the orange marmalade, dried cherries, and preserved angelica finely.

Make and freeze

  1. Add the minced mixture to the syrup and mix with the cream.

  2. Drop in a few drops of prepared cochineal.

  3. Put the mixture into a mold and freeze it.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Lemon + angelicatop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together189 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Orange + angelicatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together159 recipes

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

  4. Syrup + creamtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Angelica + creamtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together237 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Its fat gives the frozen mixture a rich, smooth texture.
Syrup
Its sugar adds sweetness and keeps the frozen texture softer.
Lemon juice
Its acidity brightens the flavour of the cream base.
Orange marmalade
Adds sweetness and concentrated citrus flavour.
Dried cherries
Add sweetness and a chewy, fruity bite.

The step that matters

Mince the fruit finely. Fine mincing spreads the marmalade, cherries and angelica evenly through the cream. Large pieces can sink, cluster or freeze into hard, uneven bits that spoil the texture.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, angelica, syrup, cream):

  1. Vanillafits about as well
  2. Orangethe original
  3. Limefits less well
  4. Raspberryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, angelica, syrup, 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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