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Tomato Water Ice

A frozen beverage made from tomatoes, water, lemon juice, apples, sugar, ginger, and optional colorings and liqueur.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,154 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Tomato Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. In a saucepan, combine the tomatoes, water, lemon juice, sliced apples, sugar, and ground ginger.

  2. Heat the mixture slowly until it reaches a boil, then remove from heat.

  3. Rub the mixture through a sieve to remove solids.

Flavor and freeze

  1. Add color pastes if desired, along with the noyau and chopped candied ginger.

  2. 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.

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. Lemon + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Apple + rumtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together214 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Apple + gingertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,424 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Tomato + gingertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Provide the main body and tangy, savory flavor of the ice.
Sugar
Sweetens the ice and lowers its freezing point so it stays softer.
Noyau
Adds almond-like aroma and a slight sweetness to the finished ice.
Candied ginger
Adds chewy texture and concentrated ginger flavor through the ice.

The step that matters

Rub the mixture through a sieve. Sieving removes the fibrous solids and seeds so the ice freezes smooth rather than grainy or pulpy.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, apple, sugar, ginger, almond, rum):

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Beetrootfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, apple, sugar, ginger, almond, rum. 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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