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Ginger Mint

A chilled ginger and mint flavored drink with capsicum and spearmint tinctures.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,154 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Ginger Mint

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large pitcher, combine the ginger syrup and lemon syrup.

  2. Add the tincture of capsicum and tincture of spearmint.

  3. Mix well and serve over ice.

  4. Provide straws for serving.

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. Ginger + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Lemon + spearminttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Ginger + capsicumtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,890 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Ginger + spearminttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Lemon + capsicumtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,737 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

Ginger syrup
Provides the main ginger flavor and sweetness as the base of the drink.
Lemon syrup
Adds sweetness and bright citrus acidity to balance the drink.
Tincture of capsicum
Adds a pungent, warming heat from capsaicin.
Tincture of spearmint
Adds a cooling, fresh mint aroma.

Swap the spearmint

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

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Spearmintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ginger, syrup, lemon, capsicum. 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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