Why it works: Apricot and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 342 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓
Tutti Frutti
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the cream, then strain it through a fine sieve into an earthenware basin and let it cool.
Pour the cooled cream into a freezer and freeze it.
Once frozen, remove the dasher and fold in the mixed fruits.
For the syrup, combine sugar and water, then add the strained juices and vanilla.
Put the syrup mixture into the freezer and freeze until half set.
Stir in the preserves and any additional preserved fruits, then freeze until solid.
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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Apricot + peachtop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together342 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together10,634 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
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Pineapple + apricottop 2% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together377 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Pineapple + peachtop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together168 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,664 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the currant
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, apricot, peach, syrup, sugar, orange, lemon):
- Vanillafits better
- Figfits better
- Pearfits better
- Currantthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, apricot, peach, syrup, sugar, orange, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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