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Mock Ice Cream

A chilled dessert made with strawberry jam, sweet cream, gelatine, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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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 ↓

Mock Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Rub the strawberry jam through a sieve.

  2. Add the jam to the sweet cream.

  3. Dissolve the gelatine in the water.

Mix and set

  1. Stir the dissolved gelatine and sugar into the cream mixture.

  2. Pour into a mold and set on ice until firm.

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

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

  2. Strawberry jam + sugartop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together291 recipes
  3. Strawberry jam + creamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together143 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberry jam or preserves
Adds strawberry flavour, sweetness and colour to the cream.
Sweet, rich cream
Provides fat for a smooth, rich texture.
Gelatine
Sets the mixture so it holds its shape when firm.
Fine white sugar
Adds sweetness and softens the texture of the frozen dessert.

The step that matters

Dissolve the gelatine fully before stirring it in. Gelatine only sets evenly when it is completely dissolved in warm liquid. Undissolved granules or lumps leave an uneven, rubbery texture in the finished mold.

Swap the strawberry jam

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Strawberry jamthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, 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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