Ben & Jerry's · Desserts
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Strawberries and cream is the oldest combination in the freezer, and putting it on sweet cream rather than vanilla keeps the dairy in the foreground where the name says it should be. There's a practical reason the fruit arrives as a swirl and not as pieces. Strawberry is mostly water, and water freezes into ice, so pieces turn mealy where a concentrated swirl stays soft and keeps its flavor. Fat is doing something subtler than rescuing the aroma. It dissolves the compounds that carry strawberry and releases them slowly as the ice cream melts, so the flavor arrives late and lasts instead of hitting all at once.
