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Wild Cherry Phosphate

A chilled beverage made with wild cherry extract, German cherry juice, and a phosphate solution, served over shaved ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Cherry and sherry work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 106 recipes. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

Wild Cherry Phosphate

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Mix the acid phosphate solution, fruit acid, wild cherry extract, German cherry juice, sherry wine, and syrup together.

  2. Filter the mixture.

Serve

  1. Add carbonated water and 2 oz of the mixed syrup to a tumbler. Stir gently.

  2. Serve with plenty of finely shaved ice.

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.

Explore the science

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. Cherry + sherrytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together106 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Cherry + winetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together423 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Cherry + syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together339 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Sherry + syruptop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together141 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Wine + syruptop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together381 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Acid phosphate solution
Provides the tart, sharp bite that balances the sweetness of the syrup.
Fruit acid
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour and keeps the drink tangy.
Wild cherry extract
Supplies the main cherry aroma and flavour.
German cherry juice
Adds cherry fruitiness and body to the base.
Syrup
Provides sweetness and body, softening the acidity.

The step that matters

Stir gently after adding carbonated water. Carbonated water releases gas quickly when agitated, so vigorous stirring drives off carbonation and leaves the drink flat. Gentle stirring keeps the fizz while mixing the base evenly.

Swap the cherry

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

  1. Pineapplefits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Cherrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sherry, wine, syrup. 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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