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Chocolate Frappe

A beverage made with chocolate syrup, frappe, and heavy soda water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and syrup are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,239 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Chocolate Frappe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour 2 ounces of chocolate syrup into a soda glass.

  2. Fill the glass one-third full with frappe.

  3. Top off the glass with heavy soda water.

  4. Pour the mixture from one glass to another.

  5. Add a little frappe on top to finish.

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. Chocolate + syruptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,239 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

Chocolate syrup
Provides the chocolate flavor and most of the sweetness.
Heavy soda water
Adds carbonation, giving the drink its fizz and lightening its body.

“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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