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Wild Strawberry Phosphate

A chilled drink made from strawberry syrup, wild cherry infusion, tartaric acid, and lemon syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Strawberry and cherry work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 217 recipes. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

Wild Strawberry Phosphate

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve the tartaric acid in the wild cherry infusion.

  2. Combine the dissolved acid with the strawberry syrup and lemon syrup.

  3. Serve in thin mineral glasses without foam.

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. Strawberry + cherrytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together217 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Cherry + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Strawberry + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,206 recipes

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

  4. Syrup + cherrytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together339 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Strawberry + syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together332 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

Strawberry syrup
Provides the main body, sweetness and strawberry flavor of the drink.
Wild cherry infusion
Adds the liquid base and a fruity, aromatic cherry note.
Tartaric acid
Adds sharp acidity that brightens the sweet syrups and gives the drink its tartness.

The step that matters

Dissolve the tartaric acid fully in the infusion. Undissolved acid crystals stay gritty and create pockets of sharp sourness, so the drink tastes unevenly tart. Dissolving it first spreads the acidity evenly through the liquid before the syrups are added.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against strawberry, syrup, cherry. 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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