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Alpine Milk Shake

A chilled milkshake flavored with lemon syrup, rose cordial, wine, mint syrup, 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 mint are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,998 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Alpine Milk Shake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a tumbler, combine 8 oz of Messina lemon syrup and 8 oz of French rose cordial.

  2. Add 2 pts of fine Rhine wine and 5 pts of mint syrup.

  3. Half fill the tumbler with clean cracked ice.

  4. Fill the tumbler with fresh milk and shake well.

  5. Garnish with a piece of mint on top.

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 + minttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,998 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + rosetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,174 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Lemon + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,157 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Lemon + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

  5. Rose + minttop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together39 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

Messina lemon syrup
Adds sweetness and bright citrus acidity to balance the richer milk.
French rose cordial
Adds sweetness and a floral aroma that defines the drink's flavour.
Fine rhine wine
Adds acidity and a light wine flavour that cuts through the sweetness.
Mint syrup
Adds sweetness and a cooling mint aroma.
Fresh milk
Adds body and a creamy texture to the drink.

The step that matters

Shake well with the milk and ice. Shaking chills the drink quickly, dilutes it slightly with melting ice, and aerates the milk. A brief shake leaves it warm, thin and unevenly mixed, so the syrups and milk do not blend smoothly.

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, syrup, rose, wine, milk):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, syrup, rose, wine, milk. 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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