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 ↓
Strawberry Ice Cream
Ingredients
Directions
Make the base
Heat sugar and half the cream in a saucepan until scalding point, then cool.
Rinse strawberries well and rub them through a sieve to create a puree.
Combine and freeze
Mix strawberry puree with remaining cream and cooled sugar mixture.
Freeze mixture until solid.
If color not vibrant enough, add a small amount of pink vegetable coloring.
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.
Photo for illustrative purposes only · Contact us to use it
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.
-
Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked 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
- Strawberries
- Provide the main flavor and the fruit puree that gives the ice cream its body.
- Cream
- Adds fat, which makes the frozen ice cream rich and smooth rather than icy.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer when frozen.
The step that matters
Freeze mixture until solid. Sugar and fat slow ice crystal growth, so the mixture should be chilled well before freezing to keep the texture smooth rather than grainy.
“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.
More strawberry ice cream recipes
You might also like
White Cake431 recipes
Pound Cake373 recipes
Orange Bundt Cake349 recipes
Spice Cake344 recipesThe free Flavor Lab newsletter: one surprising pairing a week and the molecular reason it works, in 60 seconds. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
Prefer an account? Create a free account to save pairings and unlock the full chemistry.