Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓
Strawberry Ice Cream
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the strawberries
Remove the stalks from the strawberries and mash them through a sieve into a bowl using a wooden spoon.
Add the powdered sugar and cream to the strawberry puree and mix well.
Freeze
Pour the mixture into a freezing pot.
Cover the pot and place it in a bucket surrounded by ice.
Sprinkle plenty of coarse sea salt on the ice and keep turning the pot until the ice cream is frozen.
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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Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Cream
- Adds fat, which makes the ice cream rich and creamy in texture.
- Fresh strawberries
- Provide the main flavour and colour, and the fruit pulp gives body to the mixture.
- Powdered loaf sugar
- Sweetens the mixture and lowers its freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer.
The step that matters
Sprinkle plenty of coarse sea salt on the ice and keep turning the pot. Salt lowers the temperature of the ice below water's freezing point, so the cream mixture can freeze. Constant turning keeps ice crystals small and the texture smooth.
“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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