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Vanilla Ice Cream

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Vanilla Ice Cream

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Vanilla Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve the sugar in water, boil for 3 minutes, and cool.

  2. Stir the cornstarch into a little milk until smooth, then add it to the cream.

  3. Freeze the mixture.

  4. Line a mold with the frozen vanilla ice cream, keeping the can in place.

  5. Prepare a pineapple sherbet, color it pink or green, and mix in the candied cherries, pineapple, and almonds.

  6. Freeze the sherbet, then fill the cavity of the mold with it.

  7. Cover with buttered paper, place the mold cover on, and pack in ice and salt until ready to serve.

  8. Soak the fruit in a little brandy before freezing to prevent hardness.

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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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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

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

  5. Pineapple + brandytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together298 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream, milk, almond, butter, brandy. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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