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Fruit Cream

A chilled dessert made from apricots, lemons, bananas, oranges, sugar, cream, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Fruit Cream

Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Fruit Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Remove the skin from the apricots and press the flesh through a sieve.

  2. Peel the bananas, remove any seeds and dark portions, and sift the pulp.

  3. Gradually pour in the water to help the pulp pass through the strainer.

Make and freeze

  1. Squeeze the juice from the oranges and lemons, straining it into the fruit pulp.

  2. Add the sugar and stir until dissolved, then mix in the cream.

  3. Freeze the mixture as usual.

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.

  1. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Apricot + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together124 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methyl-1-butanol acetate (fruity).

  3. Apricot + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together703 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Banana + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, creamy texture to the frozen mixture.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and softens its texture once frozen.
Bananas
Contribute body and pulp, giving the cream a thick, smooth base.
Apricots
Provide fruit flesh and flavour as the main pulp of the dish.
Lemons
Add acidity that brightens the flavour and balances the sweetness.

The step that matters

Gradually pour in the water while pressing the pulp. Adding water thins the fruit so it passes through the strainer smoothly. Pouring it in slowly keeps the pulp from clumping and helps it separate from the seeds and fibre.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apricot, banana, orange, cream, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apricot, banana, orange, cream, sugar. 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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