Name: To Make a Quart of Raspberry Cream Ice
Ingredients: 1 pound raspberry jam; milk (as needed); cream (enough to fill the mold); prepared cochineal (optional, for color); sugar (to taste, if using raw juice)

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 ↓

To Make a Quart of Raspberry Cream Ice

Ingredients

1 pound raspberry jam
milk (as needed)
cream (enough to fill the mold)
prepared cochineal (optional, for color)
sugar (to taste, if using raw juice)

Directions

Make the base

If using raspberry jam, pulp it through a fine sieve with a little milk to remove the seeds.
If using fresh raspberries, add sugar to taste after pulping the fruit through a sieve.

Finish the mixture

Add enough cream to fill the mold, plus a little extra for freezing.
If the mixture is not a fine color, add a few drops of prepared cochineal.

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.

Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Raspberry + milktop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,014 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Raspberry + creamtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,332 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together29,399 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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

Raspberry jam: Provides the main raspberry flavour, sweetness and body for the ice cream base.
Cream: Adds fat and richness, giving the frozen ice cream a smooth, creamy texture.
Sugar: Adds sweetness and softens the frozen texture when raw fruit is used.