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Iced Peach Basket

A frozen dessert made with peaches, lemon jelly, maraschino, whipped cream, and walnuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and angelica match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 189 recipes. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Iced Peach Basket

Ingredients

Directions

Make the peach mixture

  1. Stew the peaches with a little of their syrup and enough sugar until soft.

  2. Pass the peaches through a sieve.

  3. Add the lemon jelly, maraschino, and whipped cream to the peach puree.

  4. Color the mixture a delicate pink.

Freeze and decorate

  1. Pour into an open mold and freeze until firm.

  2. Turn out of the mold and decorate with angelica cut into fancy shapes.

  3. Insert a long piece of angelica as a handle.

  4. Fill the center with chopped walnuts and dress with whipped cream.

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

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

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

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

  3. Lemon + walnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,149 recipes

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

  4. Angelica + walnuttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together15 recipes

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

  5. Peach + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together947 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Lemon jelly
Gelatine sets the mixture so it holds its shape when frozen and turned out.
Whipped cream
Adds fat and air, giving the frozen mixture a lighter, creamier texture.
Peaches
Provide the main fruit flavor and body once stewed and sieved into a puree.
Sugar
Sweetens the peaches and softens their texture during stewing.
Maraschino
Adds a sweet, aromatic cherry note to the peach mixture.

The step that matters

Turn out of the mold. The frozen mixture must be firm enough to hold its shape when unmolded. Gelatine sets the jelly, and the mixture needs to be fully frozen before turning out, or it may lose its form or break.

Swap the peach

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, lemon, cream, angelica, walnut. 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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