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Bourbon and Thyme Peach Smash

Peaches and bourbon go together so well in this refreshing drink!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and peach share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 40 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. Cut the peach half into small chunks, discarding the pit, and put them in a cocktail shaker with the thyme sprigs.

  2. Muddle the peach and thyme gently until the peach releases its juice and the thyme is fragrant, then add the bourbon, lemon juice and simple syrup.

  3. If using, add the peach schnapps.

  4. Fill the shaker with ice, seal it and shake hard for about 15 seconds until well chilled.

  5. Strain into a rocks glass filled with fresh ice and serve immediately.

By tastykitchen. 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. Thyme + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Thyme + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Peach + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together947 recipes

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

  4. Peach + syruptop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together210 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Lemon + syruptop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,234 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 lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (thyme, peach, syrup):

  1. Apricotbetter flavor fit
  2. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against thyme, peach, syrup. 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).