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Iced Tea

Iced tea is a chilled beverage made from brewed black and green tea, sweetened with sugar, and optionally flavored with champagne or rum.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Green tea and champagne work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 39 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Iced Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Brew mixed black and green tea and pour it into bottles.

  2. Place the bottles on ice to cool.

Serve

  1. When ready to serve, pour the tea into goblets filled with cracked ice.

  2. Sweeten the tea with sugar to taste.

  3. Optionally, add a splash of champagne or rum to each glass, but do not add milk.

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. Green tea + champagnetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Sugar + champagnetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together424 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Green tea + sugartop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together159 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mixed black and green tea
Provides the main flavour and the bitter tannins that give the drink its body.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the tea's natural bitterness and astringency.

“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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