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Sherry Cobbler

A chilled fruit cocktail made with pineapple, lemon, orange, sherry, sugar, and ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange 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 ↓

Sherry Cobbler

Ingredients

Directions

Layer the fruit

  1. In a wide-mouthed quart pitcher, layer the sliced fruits, sprinkling sugar and pounded ice between the layers.

  2. Cover the top with more sugar and ice.

  3. Let it stand for five minutes.

Make the cobbler

  1. Add two tumblers of water and all the sugar.

  2. Stir well to dissolve.

  3. Fill the pitcher nearly full of pounded ice.

  4. Pour in the wine.

  5. Stir from the bottom until mixed.

Serve

  1. Place a slice of each type of fruit in each goblet.

  2. Add the liquid.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Pineapple + sherrytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together228 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

  5. Pineapple + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together325 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Sherry wine
Provides the main wine flavour and body of the drink.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the drink and dissolves into the liquid to balance the sherry.
Lemon
Adds acidity and bright citrus aroma from its slices and juice.
Orange
Adds sweetness, citrus aroma and fruity flavour to the drink.
Pineapple
Adds sweet, tropical fruit flavour to the drink.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, orange, sugar, sherry, wine):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, orange, sugar, sherry, wine. 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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