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Strawberry Ics Cream

A frozen dessert made from strawberries, sugar, jam, lemon juice, milk, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream 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 Ics Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Place the strawberries in a basin and mash them slightly.

  2. Add the powdered sugar, strawberry jam, lemon juice, and whole milk.

  3. Mix well, then stir in the heavy cream.

  4. Add a few drops of food coloring if desired.

Freeze

  1. Freeze the mixture until solid.

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

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

  2. Lemon + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

  3. Strawberry jam + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together144 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the main fruit flavour and colour, with mashing releasing juice into the base.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the base and dissolves easily into the cold mixture.
Heavy cream
Adds fat for a rich, smooth texture that softens ice crystal growth.
Whole milk
Adds moisture and milk solids that support a creamy body.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the strawberry flavour.

The step that matters

Freeze the mixture until solid. Freezing slowly in a large mass forms larger ice crystals, giving a coarse, icy texture. Stirring during freezing and keeping the mixture cold encourages smaller crystals and a smoother result.

Swap the strawberry jam

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Strawberry jamthe original

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