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Fruit Nectar

A chilled beverage made from raspberry syrup, grape-juice syrup, raspberry vinegar, and mineral water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and grape work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 197 recipes. Both carry (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol, which smells freshly cut grass green and herbaceous notes. The science ↓

Fruit Nectar

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the raspberry syrup, grape-juice syrup, and raspberry vinegar in a glass. Stir well to mix the ingredients.

  2. Serve in a mineral water glass and top with mineral water.

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. Raspberry + grapetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together197 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol (freshly cut grass green and herbaceous notes).

  2. Grape + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,589 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Raspberry + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. Raspberry + syruptop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together377 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Syrup + grapetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together393 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Raspberry syrup
Provides the main fruit flavor and sweetness.
Grape-juice syrup
Adds sweetness and a second fruit flavor to the drink.
Raspberry vinegar
Adds tartness and acidity that balances the sweet syrups.

Swap the grape

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

  1. Peachfits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Red currantfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against raspberry, syrup, vinegar. 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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