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Lemon Verbena Lemonade

Lemon verbena adds hints of floral and citrus to homemade lemonade. If you can’t find it, substitute mint. You can also use honey in place of the sugar, though you may need to add a few more tablespoons to achieve the ideal sweet-tart balance.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon verbena and lemon work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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By williamssonoma. 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. Lemon verbena + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  3. Lemon verbena + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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