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Frozen Peaches and Cream

A frozen dessert made from mashed peaches, sugar, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Frozen Peaches and Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Peel and mash the peaches to a pulp.

  2. Sweeten the peach pulp with sugar until very sweet, but not quite equal to the weight of the fruit.

Make and freeze

  1. Combine 1 pint of cream with each pint of peach pulp and sugar.

  2. Freeze the mixture according to general directions for freezing ice creams.

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. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together721 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Ripe peaches
Provide the flavor and fruit pulp that gives the ice cream its body and taste.
Sugar
Sweetens the pulp and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer and scoopable.
Cream
Adds fat and richness, creating a smooth, creamy texture.

The step that matters

Sweeten the peach pulp with sugar until very sweet, but not quite equal to the weight of the fruit.. Sugar lowers the freezing point of the mixture. Too little makes the ice cream icy and hard, while too much can keep it from freezing firmly. Tasting for sweetness helps get the balance right.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, 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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