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Macedoine of Fruit with Sherbet

A chilled dessert of mixed fruit blended with sherbet.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and raspberry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 190 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Macedoine of Fruit with Sherbet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Peel and slice the banana.

  2. Peel the orange and remove the sections, discarding seeds and membranes.

  3. Cut the pineapple into 2-3 thin slices and dice them.

  4. Remove seeds and skins from the white grapes.

  5. Pare and slice the peaches, and add them to a bowl with the raspberries.

  6. Sprinkle the fruit mixture with powdered sugar, mix thoroughly, and chill in ice until cold.

Make the sherbet

  1. Boil 1 pint of water.

  2. Soften 1½ teaspoons of gelatine in 1 tablespoon of cold water, then add to the boiling water.

  3. Pour the mixture into a freezer can, add 1 pint of fruit juice, and churn as usual.

Serve

  1. Serve the chilled fruit in glasses with a spoonful of sherbet on top.

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. Peach + raspberrytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together190 recipes

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

  2. Banana + pineappletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Pineapple + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together168 recipes

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

  4. Banana + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together130 recipes

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

  5. Pineapple + grapetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatine
Sets the liquid base so the sherbet holds a smooth, firm body when churned.
Fruit juice
Supplies the main liquid and flavour base that freezes into the sherbet.
Peaches
Add soft texture and natural sweetness to the chilled fruit.
Raspberries
Add tart flavour and colour to the chilled fruit mixture.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out juices as it sits.

The step that matters

Chilling the gelatine mixture before churning. Gelatine must be fully dissolved and the mixture cooled before it enters the freezer can; if it is still hot or undissolved, it can set unevenly and leave a grainy or rubbery texture in the frozen sherbet.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, orange, pineapple, grape, peach, sugar, raspberry):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, orange, pineapple, grape, peach, sugar, raspberry. 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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