Name: To Make Ice Cream
Ingredients: 2 quarts of cream; 1 pound of strawberry or raspberry jam

Why it works: Cream and strawberry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,525 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

To Make Ice Cream

Ingredients

2 quarts of cream
1 pound of strawberry or raspberry jam

Directions

Mix the cream and jam together until well combined.
Chill the mixture in the refrigerator.
Pour the mixture into an ice cream maker and churn according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Once churned, transfer to a container and freeze until firm.

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.

Cream + strawberrytop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,525 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream: Provides fat and richness, giving the ice cream a smooth, creamy texture.
Strawberry or raspberry jam: Adds sweetness, fruit flavor, and some sugar that keeps the ice cream softer when frozen.

“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.