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Peppermint Candy Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made with peppermint sticks, milk, cream, and beaten egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,399 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Peppermint Candy Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Dissolve the crushed peppermint sticks in a saucepan over low heat with the milk.

  2. Once the mixture cools, mix in the cream.

Beat and freeze

  1. Beat the mixture with an egg whisk for five minutes.

  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. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

  2. Peppermint + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together479 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Peppermint + creamtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together632 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Peppermint sticks
Dissolve to give the base its sweetness and peppermint flavour.
Milk
Liquid base that carries the dissolved candy and adds body to the mixture.
Cream
Adds fat for a rich, smooth texture that feels creamy when frozen.

The step that matters

Beat the mixture with an egg whisk for five minutes. Beating breaks up ice crystals as the mixture chills and whips in air, which helps the ice cream freeze smoother rather than icy.

Swap the peppermint

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Macefits about as well
  4. Peppermintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, cream. 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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