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Mulled Apple Champagne Punch

"A clear, golden sparkly punch. This makes 18 - 5 ounce glasses. I suggest you plan on several glasses per person unless many guests are teetotalers. I was greatly embarrassed to see how quickly it was disappearing, and ended up with a greatly diluted version before long. I just had to keep adding regular white wine to the mix when the second batch started to empty out. Punch is not hugely popular here, but it certainly was that night!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and champagne share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 30 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

18 servings
Prep1 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Pour the Chablis into a large heavy pot and stir in the thawed apple juice concentrate, pumpkin pie spice and grated orange zest.

  2. Heat over medium-low for about 8 minutes, stirring often, until steaming and fragrant. Do not let it boil.

  3. Reduce the heat to low and add the orange slices and the pineapple chunks with their juice. Keep warm for about 2 minutes.

  4. Stir in the drained maraschino cherries and remove the pot from the heat.

  5. Just before serving, pour in the chilled dry champagne gently so it keeps its fizz, then ladle into cups.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Apple + champagnetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Champagne + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together96 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Apple + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together529 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Wine + champagnetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together153 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Orange + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, apple, wine, champagne, pineapple):

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Grapebetter flavor fit
  3. Pearbetter flavor fit
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, apple, wine, champagne, pineapple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).