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Apricot Ice

A frozen dessert made from apricots, condensed milk, lemon juice, and liqueur.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Apricot and milk work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 826 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Apricot Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Drain the apricots and place them in a bowl.

  2. Add the strained lemon juice and liqueur to the apricots.

Finish and freeze

  1. Mix in the thickened condensed milk.

  2. Rub the mixture through a fine sieve.

  3. Set the mixture to freeze.

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. Apricot + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together826 recipes

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

  2. Apricot + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,098 recipes

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

  3. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

  4. Apricot + condensed milktop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Condensed milk + lemontop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together211 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Apricots
Provide the main fruit flavour and pulp that gives the ice cream its body.
Condensed milk
Supplies sweetness and creaminess, and its milk solids add body to the ice cream.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the apricot flavour.
Liqueur
Adds aroma and flavour, and keeps the frozen texture softer.

The step that matters

Rub the mixture through a fine sieve. Sieving removes fibrous pulp and skins from the apricots. Without this, the frozen ice cream can feel grainy or stringy instead of smooth.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apricot, milk, condensed milk):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apricot, milk, condensed milk. 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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