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Delightful Punch

"A delightful punch made with tea, grapefruit, orange and pineapple juice. It's sweetened with simple syrup and carbonated with ginger ale. Note: make simple syrup by boiling equal parts water and sugar."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Black tea and syrup work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 11 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Brew the black tea strong by steeping it in a pan of boiling water for 5 minutes, then strain and let it cool to room temperature.

  2. Refrigerate the cooled tea until thoroughly cold, about 30 minutes.

  3. In a large punch bowl, stir together the grapefruit juice, orange juice, pineapple juice and simple syrup.

  4. Stir the chilled tea into the juice mixture, then refrigerate the punch until very cold, about 30 minutes.

  5. Just before serving, pour in the chilled ginger ale and stir gently to keep it bubbly.

  6. Ladle the punch into cups and serve right away.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Black tea + syruptop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Grapefruit + orangetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Orange + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,833 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Orange + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Grapefruit + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (black tea, grapefruit, orange, syrup, ginger):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Limeabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Pineapplethe original
  4. Grapeabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against black tea, grapefruit, orange, syrup, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).