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Orange Syrup

A syrup made from orange peel, citric acid, egg mixture, orange juice, water, and optional berry juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Orange Syrup

Why it works: Orange and cherry work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 689 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Orange Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the extract

  1. Macerate fresh orange peel in enough alcohol to cover it for two weeks.

  2. After two weeks, pour off the alcohol and gently squeeze out the peel.

Make the syrup

  1. Mix the orange extract with citric acid solution, egg mixture, orange juice, and water.

  2. For color, add cherry or black raspberry juice in a ratio of 1 to 8.

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 + cherrytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together689 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Egg + cherrytop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,611 recipes

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

  3. Orange + eggtop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Orange and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,696 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

Fresh orange peel
Supplies the orange aroma and flavor oils that are drawn into the alcohol during maceration.
Orange juice
Adds sweetness, acidity and fresh citrus flavor to the syrup.
Citric acid solution
Adds sharp acidity that brightens the flavor of the syrup.
Egg mixture
Contributes body and texture to the syrup.

Swap the cherry

The recipe marks cherry as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, egg):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Cherrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, egg. 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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