Why it works: Sugar and cream 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 ↓
Strawberry Ice Cream
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the strawberries
Sprinkle strawberries with sugar.
Wash strawberries well.
Rub strawberries through a sieve.
Make and freeze the base
Add ½ pint of good cream to the pint of juice.
Sweeten the mixture.
Freeze the mixture.
Finish and serve
Stir in 1 pint of whipped cream.
Stir in a handful of sweetened whole strawberries.
Mold the mixture in ice or keep it in the freezer.
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.
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Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Strawberries
- Provide the main flavour, colour and fruit juice that sweetens and scents the base.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and softens the texture by lowering the freezing point.
- Cream
- Adds fat for a rich, smooth texture that stays creamy when frozen.
- Whipped cream
- Adds air and fat, making the frozen ice cream lighter and creamier.
The step that matters
Freeze the mixture. Freezing the base before adding whipped cream and whole strawberries keeps it from becoming icy. Sugar lowers the freezing point, so sweetening fully before freezing affects texture.
“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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