Why it works: Raspberry and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,109 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓
Raspberry Ice Cream
Ingredients
Directions
Make the mixture
In a bowl, combine raspberry jam and lemon juice.
Add cream and a little milk, mixing well.
If using fresh raspberries, add them along with sugar to taste.
Color the mixture if desired.
Freeze
Freeze until firm.
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.
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Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,109 recipes
Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
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Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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Raspberry + milktop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,014 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Lemon + milktop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together19,053 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Raspberry + creamtop 16% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together1,332 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Raspberry jam
- Provides the main raspberry flavor and sweetness.
- Lemon juice
- Adds acidity that brightens the fruit flavor and balances the sweetness.
- Cream
- Adds fat for a rich, smooth texture that stays creamy when frozen.
Swap the lemon
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (raspberry, cream, milk, sugar):
- Vanillafits better
- Strawberryfits better
- Peachfits better
- Lemonthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against raspberry, cream, milk, sugar. 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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