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Iced Pudding a LA Shakspeare

A frozen custard dessert flavored with caramel, curaçao, and dried fruit.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange 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 ↓

Iced Pudding a LA Shakspeare

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. In a bowl, combine the cream, egg yolks, and sugar to make a custard.

Make the caramel

  1. In a saucepan, combine 4 ounces of sugar, cinnamon, lemon rind, and ½ cup of water.

  2. Boil the mixture until dark brown.

  3. Dilute the caramel with ½ cup of water.

  4. Strain the caramel.

Freeze and finish

  1. Mix the custard with the caramel essence and curaçao.

  2. Freeze the mixture until firm.

  3. Fold in the dried fruits and whipped cream.

  4. Mold the ice and embed it in rough ice and salt.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Cinnamon + orangetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Cinnamon + peartop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together600 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  4. Cinnamon + pistachiotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together201 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + pistachiotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together431 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Provides richness and fat, giving the frozen base a smooth, creamy body.
Egg yolks
Thicken the custard and add richness, helping the base freeze smooth rather than icy.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice softer and less hard.
Whipped cream
Adds air and lightness, making the frozen dessert less dense in texture.
Mixed dried fruits
Add chewy texture and concentrated fruit sweetness throughout the frozen mixture.

The step that matters

Boil the caramel until dark brown. Sugar moves quickly from amber to burnt, and burnt sugar turns bitter. Stopping at the right colour gives a deep caramel flavour rather than an acrid one.

Swap the pear

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, egg, sugar, cinnamon, lemon, orange, pistachio):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Pearthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, egg, sugar, cinnamon, lemon, orange, pistachio. 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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