Name: Ice Cream Candy
Ingredients: 1 cup butter; lemon flavor; vanilla flavor

Why it works: Butter and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,050 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Ice Cream Candy

Ingredients

1 cup butter
lemon flavor
vanilla flavor

Directions

Melt the butter in a saucepan.
Add lemon and vanilla flavors to the melted butter.
Mix thoroughly until well combined.
Pour the mixture into a mold and let it cool.
Store in a cool place until set.

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.

Butter + vanillatop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,050 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Lemon + vanillatop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,961 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,227 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).