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Quenching Creamy Raspberry Punch

"A delicious raspberry punch that goes great with chocolate. Use either vanilla ice cream or raspberry sherbet."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Quenching Creamy Raspberry Punch

Why it works: Raspberry and vanilla work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 950 recipes. Both carry ethyl benzoate, which smells fruity, sweet. The science ↓

Quenching Creamy Raspberry Punch

20 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

227Calories
2 gProtein
12 gFat
29 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Raspberry1 cup (123g)64
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Ice Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Raspberry + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together950 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (fruity, sweet).

  2. Cream + vanillatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Raspberry + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

Cream and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,301 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

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, vanilla):

  1. Strawberryfits better
  2. Raspberrythe original
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Bananafits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, vanilla. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.