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Coca Malt Phosphate

A medicinal tonic made from malt extract, wine syrups, orange wine, rose spirit, and phosphates.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Wine and spirit work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 701 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

Coca Malt Phosphate

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrups

  1. Make Kola wine syrup by mixing 2 pints of Kola wine with 3 pints of simple syrup.

  2. Make Coca wine syrup by mixing 2 pints of Coca wine with 3 pints of simple syrup.

Combine

  1. Combine all ingredients in a large container and mix well.

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. Wine + spirittop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together701 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Orange + rosetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together876 recipes

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

  3. Orange + spirittop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together171 recipes

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

  4. Wine + orangetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,046 recipes

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

  5. Spirit + rosetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together140 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Extract of malt
Adds sweetness and a rounded, full body to the tonic.
Kola wine syrup
Provides the main sweet, bitter-tinged flavour base of the drink.
Acid solution of phosphates
Adds tartness that balances the sweetness and sharpens the flavour.
Pure orange wine
Contributes citrus aroma and fruity flavour.
Spirit of rose
Adds a floral aroma that shapes the drink's scent.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Orangethe original
  3. Applefits about as well
  4. Raspberryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against malt, wine, syrup, spirit, rose. 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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