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Orange Phosphate Syrup

A syrup made with orange essence, acid phosphates, coccineus tincture, quillaja tincture, and sugar syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and sugar match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Orange Phosphate Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. In a 5‑pint bottle, combine the syrup and essence of orange, then shake well.

  2. Add the solution of acid phosphates, shaking after each addition.

  3. Next, add the tincture of coccineus, shaking again.

  4. Finally, add the tincture of quillaja and shake well once more.

Serve

  1. To serve, pour 1 to 1½ ounces of syrup into an 11‑ounce glass.

  2. Fill the glass three‑quarters full with soda, pouring from another glass to mix.

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. Syrup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

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

  3. Orange + syruptop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,179 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Orange and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Syrup
Provides sweetness and body to the drink.
Essence of orange
Supplies the main orange aroma and flavor.
Solution of acid phosphates
Adds tartness that balances the sweetness.
Tincture of coccineus
Adds red colour to the syrup.
Tincture of quillaja
Helps the drink foam and stabilises the mixture.

The step that matters

Fill the glass with soda by pouring between glasses. Pouring the soda from a height and back between glasses mixes the syrup without stirring, which keeps the carbonation lively and the drink fizzy.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (syrup, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against syrup, sugar. 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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