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White Grape Fruit Cocktail

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 709 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

White Grape Fruit Cocktail

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the skins from the white grapes, cut them in halves, and remove the seeds.

  2. Chill the grapes and place them in cocktail glasses.

  3. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and drizzle with sherry wine or orange juice.

  4. Top with a brandied cherry.

  5. Serve as a first course at luncheon. Optionally, mix in pieces of pineapple, orange, or grapefruit.

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. Grape + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Cherry + pineappletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together537 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Grape + cherrytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Sherry + pineappletop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together228 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Grape + sherrytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together229 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the grape

The recipe marks grape as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, sherry, cherry, pineapple):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, sherry, cherry, pineapple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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