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Strawberry Water

A chilled beverage made from strawberry juice, raspberry juice or syrup, orange juice, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Strawberry and raspberry work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 815 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Strawberry Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine strawberry juice, raspberry juice or syrup, and orange juice in a pitcher.

  2. If using raspberry juice, add sugar and water.

  3. Stir well until sugar is dissolved.

  4. Serve chilled.

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. Strawberry + raspberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together815 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Strawberry + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together726 recipes

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

  3. Raspberry + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together521 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Strawberry + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,060 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

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

Orange and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 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

Strawberry juice
Provides the main fruit flavor and most of the drink's color.
Raspberry juice or syrup
Adds a second berry flavor and, as syrup, extra sweetness.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the fruit juices.
Orange juice
Adds acidity and brightness that lift the berry flavors.

The step that matters

Stir until the sugar is fully dissolved. Undissolved sugar stays grainy and settles to the bottom, so the sweetness is uneven and the drink tastes gritty when chilled.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (strawberry, raspberry, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Blackberryfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against strawberry, raspberry, sugar. 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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