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Raspberry Sherbet

A frozen raspberry dessert made with raspberry syrup, white wine, sugar, citrus juice, gelatin, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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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 ↓

Raspberry Sherbet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large bowl, mix raspberry syrup, white wine, sugar, orange juice, lemon juice, and gelatin using an egg beater until well combined.

  2. Add enough water to fill the mixture to three-quarters of a gallon.

  3. Freeze quickly, but do not let it harden completely.

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

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

  2. Syrup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

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

  4. Raspberry + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together521 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. White wine + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

What each ingredient does

Raspberry syrup
Provides the main raspberry flavour and sweetness.
White wine
Adds acidity and aroma, and lowers the freezing point for a softer texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and further softens the frozen texture.
Gelatin
Stabilises the mixture and helps give the sherbet a smoother, firmer body.

The step that matters

Freeze quickly, but do not let it harden completely. Fast freezing forms small ice crystals, keeping the texture smooth. Freezing until fully solid makes the sherbet hard and icy, so it should be removed while still scoopable.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Pineapplefits about as well
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against syrup, white wine, sugar, orange, lemon. 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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