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Morgan Maraschino Tea

A tea flavored with orange and lemon juice, cloves, maraschino cherries, and sweetened with rock candy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Morgan Maraschino Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Make the tea

  1. Brew the tea in the usual way.

  2. Add the juice of the orange and lemons to the hot tea.

Serve

  1. Pour the tea into cups, adding 2 cloves to each cup.

  2. Drop one or two Maraschino cherries into each cup.

  3. Sweeten with rock candy crystals.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Orange + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,987 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Tea + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together610 recipes

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

  4. Tea + orangetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together333 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Tea
Provides the base liquid and the main tannic, slightly bitter flavour of the drink.
Citrus juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour and balances the sweetness of the candy.
Rock candy crystals
Add sweetness, which is dissolved into the hot tea as the drink is sweetened.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tea, orange, lemon):

  1. Gingerfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Peppermintfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tea, orange, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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