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Tomato Water Ice

A chilled beverage made from tomatoes, water, lemon juice, apples, sugar, ginger, color pastes, noyau, candied ginger, and optional rum.

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. Combine tomatoes, water, lemon juice, sliced apples, sugar, and ground ginger in a saucepan.

  2. Heat the mixture slowly until it boils, then remove from heat.

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

Flavor and freeze

  1. Add the color pastes, noyau, and candied ginger, and mix well.

  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 tart, savory flavor of the ice.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point so the ice stays softer.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the sweetness.
Apples
Add pectin and body, contributing fruity flavor and a smoother texture.
Noyau
Adds an almond-like aroma and flavor, and some sugar-based softness to the frozen texture.

The step that matters

Freeze the mixture until solid. Freezing without stirring lets large ice crystals form, giving a coarse, icy texture. Sugar and alcohol lower the freezing point, so the mixture takes longer to set and should be checked for firmness rather than assumed set on schedule.

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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