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Egg Phosphate

A sparkling cocktail made with orange and pineapple syrups, egg, acid phosphates, lemon juice, soda water, and sprinkled with mace.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Egg Phosphate

Ingredients

Directions

Shake

  1. In a shaker, combine orange syrup, pineapple syrup, egg, acid phosphates, and lemon juice.

  2. Shake well and strain into a glass.

Finish

  1. Add soda water in a fine stream.

  2. Sprinkle mace on top before 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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + macetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,315 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Egg + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

Egg and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 44,316 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Egg
Adds body and a silky, frothy texture when shaken with the liquids.
Acid phosphates
Provides sharp, tangy acidity that brightens the sweet syrups.
Lemon juice
Adds fresh acidity that balances the sweetness of the syrups.
Orange syrup
Supplies sweetness and citrus flavor.
Pineapple syrup
Supplies sweetness and fruity flavor.
Soda water
Adds carbonation, making the drink light and effervescent.

The step that matters

Shake well, then strain. Vigorous shaking blends the egg evenly into the syrups and juice and aerates it, creating a smooth, foamy body. Under-shaking leaves streaks of raw egg and a thin texture, and straining removes any lumps so the drink pours clean.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, syrup, pineapple, egg, lemon):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Peppermintfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, syrup, pineapple, egg, lemon. 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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