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Strawberry Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made from strawberry juice, cream, sugar, and whole strawberries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Strawberry 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 ↓

Strawberry Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Sprinkle strawberries with sugar.

  2. Wash strawberries well.

  3. Rub through a sieve to obtain juice.

  4. Add ½ pint heavy cream to the pint of juice.

  5. Sweeten to taste.

Freeze and finish

  1. Freeze the mixture.

  2. When it begins to set, stir in 1 pint whipped cream.

  3. Stir in a handful of sweetened whole strawberries.

  4. Transfer to a mold and embed in ice.

  5. Keep in the freezer.

Second version

  1. Mash 1 quart strawberries with 1 pound sugar in an earthen bowl.

  2. Rub through a colander.

  3. Add 1 quart sweet cream.

  4. Freeze.

  5. Use bottled or canned strawberries.

  6. Mix juice with ½ pint cream, then sweeten.

  7. Freeze.

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. Strawberry + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Strawberry + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,060 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, 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 flavor, color and moisture of the ice cream.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the mixture softer.
Heavy cream
Adds fat, giving a rich, smooth and creamy texture.
Whipped cream
Adds air, making the finished ice cream lighter and less dense.
Whole strawberries
Add pieces of fruit that give a contrasting bite in the frozen ice cream.

The step that matters

When it begins to set, stir in 1 pint whipped cream.. Folding whipped cream into a partly frozen base traps air and keeps the texture light. Adding it when the mixture is fully liquid lets it deflate, and adding it when fully frozen makes it hard to mix evenly.

Swap the strawberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberrythe original
  3. Raspberryfits about as well
  4. Raisinfits less well

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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