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Strawberry-Gin Cocktail

"I served this cocktail for the first time at a wedding shower and it was a hit! Since then I make it whenever strawberries are in season. I have substituted raspberries when I had them on hand and it was great!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Basil and gin work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

1 cocktail
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. Hull the strawberry, then place it in a cocktail shaker with the basil leaves and white sugar.

  2. Muddle gently until the strawberry is crushed and the basil is bruised, but not shredded.

  3. Add the gin and fresh lemon juice to the shaker, then fill it with ice cubes.

  4. Shake well for about 15 seconds until the shaker is cold on the outside.

  5. Strain into a chilled glass filled with fresh ice cubes.

  6. Slowly top with the chilled club soda, then stir once gently and serve right away.

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. Basil + gintop 22% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Basil + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,820 recipes

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

  3. Strawberry + basiltop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together83 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together53,530 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Strawberry + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together3,060 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and lemon share little aroma chemistry, yet 53,530 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the basil

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

  1. Mintbetter flavor fit
  2. Peppermintbetter flavor fit
  3. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  4. Basilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against strawberry, sugar, gin, lemon. 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).