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Strawberry Ice

A chilled dessert made from strawberries, sugar, strawberry juice, double cream, and cochineal for color.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the strawberry juice

  1. Pound the strawberries with the sugar in a mortar.

  2. Strain the juice through a fine cloth and color it pink with cochineal.

  3. If fresh strawberries are unavailable, mix a pot of the best jam with the juice of a lemon, a little water, and a few drops of cochineal.

  4. Strain the strawberry syrup and add the cream as above.

Make and freeze the ice cream

  1. Whip the cream to stiff peaks.

  2. Gradually mix the whipped cream with the strawberry juice.

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

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

  2. Strawberry + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,525 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + strawberrytop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,060 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Double cream
Whipped to stiff peaks, it traps air and gives the frozen ice cream a light, rich texture.
Fresh strawberries
Provide the main flavor and, once pounded and strained, the juice that tints and sweetens the base.
Sugar
Sweetens the strawberries and helps draw out their juice when pounded together.

The step that matters

Gradually mix the whipped cream with the strawberry juice. Adding the juice slowly, in portions, keeps the whipped cream from deflating and losing the air that gives the ice cream its lightness.

Swap the strawberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberrythe original
  3. Raspberryfits about as well
  4. Raisinfits less well

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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