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Orange Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made from cream, sugar, orange juice, lemon juice, orange rind syrup, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Orange Ice Cream

Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Orange Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the base

  1. Cook the cream and sugar together, then cool and strain.

  2. Prepare the juice of the oranges and lemon.

  3. Cook the grated rind with 1⅓ teacups sugar to make a syrup, then cool.

Mix and freeze

  1. Mix the syrup with the cream when it is half frozen.

  2. Freeze 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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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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Cream + syruptop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Cream
Milk fat gives the ice cream a rich, smooth, creamy texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the mix and keeps the ice cream softer by lowering its freezing point.
Orange juice
Adds sharp fruit acidity and bright orange flavor.
Lemon juice
Adds extra acidity that brightens the citrus flavor.
Orange rind
Oils in the zest add concentrated orange aroma.

The step that matters

Mix the syrup in when the cream is half frozen. A partly frozen mix is thick enough to hold the syrup evenly. Adding the syrup to liquid cream or to a solid block can leave streaks and uneven sweetness and flavor.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Orangethe original
  3. Raspberryfits about as well
  4. Strawberryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, lemon, 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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