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White Coffee Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made by mixing roasted white coffee with sweetened cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

White Coffee Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the coffee cream

  1. Roast the white coffee until it is a nice brown.

  2. While hot, add the coffee to the quart of cream that has been sweetened to taste.

  3. Let the mixture stand for 2 hours.

Strain and freeze

  1. Strain the mixture through a fine sieve.

  2. Freeze the strained mixture.

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. Coffee + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  3. Coffee + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,344 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

White coffee
Provides the roasted coffee flavor that infuses the cream.
Cream
Supplies fat and richness, giving the ice cream its smooth, creamy body.
Sugar
Sweetens the cream and lowers the freezing point, keeping the texture softer.

The step that matters

Letting the coffee steep in the cream for 2 hours. The hot coffee needs time to release its flavor into the cream. Steeping is what carries the roasted taste through the dairy, so a short rest gives a weak, flat flavor.

“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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