Name: Peach Cream
Ingredients: 1 gallon rich cream; 1 quart soft peaches, chopped fine; 2 teaspoons vanilla or grated vanilla-bean; sugar to taste

Why it works: Peach and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 558 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Peach Cream

yields 1.5 gallons when frozen

Ingredients

1 gallon rich cream
1 quart soft peaches, chopped fine
2 teaspoons vanilla or grated vanilla-bean
sugar to taste

Directions

Make the mixture

Combine the cream and chopped peaches in a large bowl.
Add vanilla and sugar to taste.

Freeze

Mix well and freeze the mixture.
This recipe yields 1.5 gallons when frozen.

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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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.

Peach + vanillatop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together558 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Vanilla + sugartop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together35,032 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Cream + vanillatop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together12,301 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

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

Vanilla and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Rich cream: Provides fat for a rich, smooth texture in the frozen ice cream.
Soft peaches: Adds fruit flavor and moisture, with pieces that stay soft when frozen.
Sugar: Adds sweetness and keeps the frozen ice cream softer rather than hard and icy.
Vanilla: Adds aroma that rounds out the flavor of the cream and peaches.