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Preserve Ice

A chilled dessert made by mixing preserve, condensed milk, and lemon juice, then straining and freezing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,053 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Preserve Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Make a pint of milk using condensed milk.

  2. Add the preserve and the juice of the lemons to the milk.

  3. Mix well and strain through a sieve.

  4. Pour the mixture into a freezing pot.

Variations

  1. For variations, use any tinned fruit instead of apricots, cutting pineapple into small dice.

  2. Ginger, cherry, and other fruit ices can be made similarly using only the juice.

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.

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Milk + condensed milktop 61% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together0 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

Preserve
Provides sweetness and fruit flavour, along with body to the frozen mixture.
Condensed milk
Supplies sweetness and creaminess, giving the ice a smooth, rich texture.
Lemons
Add acidity and brightness that balance the sweetness of the preserve and milk.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against 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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