Skip to main content
Dessert

Raspberry Iced Cream

A chilled raspberry dessert made by freezing a mixture of sugar, raspberry jelly, lemon juice, and ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

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 Iced Cream

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Mix the sugar, raspberry jelly, cochineal, and lemon juice in a bowl.

  2. Strain the mixture and pour it into a freezing pot.

Freeze

  1. Cover the pot and place it in a bucket with a small hole at the bottom.

  2. Fill the bucket with crushed ice and mix in coarse salt.

  3. Press the ice around the freezing pot and turn it for about 10 minutes.

  4. Remove the cover and scrape the frozen cream to the center, then cover it again and turn until evenly iced.

Serve

  1. Serve in china ice-pails or mold it, covering securely and returning to the bucket for at least an hour.

  2. Dip the molds in cold water before turning out and serve immediately.

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

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

  2. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + raspberrytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Raspberry jelly or jam
Provides the raspberry flavor, sweetness, and fruit solids that give the cream its body.
Pounded loaf sugar
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the cream softer when frozen.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the raspberry flavor and balances the sweetness.
Ice
Chills the freezing pot so the mixture freezes.

The step that matters

Turning the pot in the salted ice. The cream must be scraped down and turned evenly as it freezes. Without this, large ice crystals form and the texture turns grainy instead of smooth.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, lemon. 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.

You might also like

Lemon CakeLemon Cake228 recipesRaspberry JamRaspberry Jam150 recipesLemon IceLemon Ice147 recipesLemon SherbetLemon Sherbet103 recipes