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Currant-water Ice

A frozen dessert made from currant jelly, lime juice, water, and syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and syrup work together. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 322 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Currant-water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, combine currant jelly, lime juice, water, and syrup.

  2. Strain the mixture to remove any solids.

  3. Add food coloring if desired and mix well.

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.

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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. Lime + syruptop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together322 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Currant + syruptop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together329 recipes
  3. Currant + limetop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

What each ingredient does

Currant jelly
Provides the main fruit flavor and sweetness, and its pectin gives the ice body.
Lime juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness and sharpens the fruit flavor.
Syrup
Adds sugar that softens the freezing mixture so it stays scoopable rather than rock-hard.

The step that matters

Strain the mixture. Straining removes solids that would otherwise leave gritty, uneven pieces in the frozen ice, giving it a smooth texture.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lime, syrup):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lime, syrup. 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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