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Rowdy Red Rooster

"An alcoholic beverage good for business get-togethers."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cranberry and mandarin orange share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 7 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

10 (8 fluid ounce) servings
Prep5 min
Cook2 min

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. Open the can of mandarin oranges and pour the fruit along with its liquid into a large pitcher or punch bowl.

  2. Add the cranberry juice and orange juice to the pitcher and stir to combine.

  3. Pour in the vodka and stir well until evenly mixed.

  4. Cover the pitcher and refrigerate for at least 1 hour so the flavors blend and the punch is well chilled.

  5. Stir the punch again gently, then ladle it into glasses and serve cold.

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. Cranberry + mandarin orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Orange + mandarin orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Cranberry + orangetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together230 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Vodka + cranberrytop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together125 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Vodka + orangetop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together202 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mandarin orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vodka, cranberry, orange):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  3. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Mandarin orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vodka, cranberry, orange. 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).