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 ↓
Black Currant Cream Ice
Ingredients
Directions
Follow the same process as the Apricot Cream Ice recipe.
Add 2 ounces more sugar than specified in that recipe.
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.
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Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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Apricot + black curranttop 11% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together7 recipes
Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).
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Sugar + apricottop 18% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together3,630 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Black currant + creamtop 20% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together67 recipes
Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
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Sugar + black curranttop 22% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together393 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the apricot
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, black currant, cream):
- Vanillafits better
- Raspberryfits better
- Red currantfits better
- Apricotthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, black currant, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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