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Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made from cream, arrowroot, egg whites, powdered sugar, salt, and pineapple flavoring.

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

Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Boil the cream in a saucepan.

  2. Thicken the boiling cream with arrowroot and powdered sugar, adding a little salt.

Finish and freeze

  1. Pour the hot mixture over the beaten egg whites, stirring well.

  2. Add pineapple flavoring to taste.

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

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

  2. Arrowroot + pineappletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Sugar + pineappletop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

  4. Arrowroot + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,073 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Provides richness and a smooth, creamy body to the frozen dessert.
Arrowroot
Thickens the hot cream so the mixture holds together and freezes smoothly.
Egg whites
Add lightness and airy structure to the mixture as it is stirred in.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the base and helps keep the frozen texture soft.

The step that matters

Pouring the hot mixture over the egg whites. Pouring too quickly or without stirring can scramble the beaten whites into lumps. Stirring well while pouring spreads the heat evenly and keeps the mixture smooth and light.

Swap the arrowroot

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Arrowrootthe original
  4. Asparagusfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, egg, sugar, pineapple. 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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