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Cranberry Gin Fizz

Cranberries and gin pair well for a festive holiday drink!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Gin and cranberry work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 10 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. 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. Chill a tall glass in the fridge for a few minutes while you mix the drink.

  2. Pour the gin, cranberry juice, lemon juice and simple syrup into a cocktail shaker or mixing glass and stir well for about 30 seconds.

  3. Pour the mixture into the chilled tall glass.

  4. Slowly top the glass with the club soda and stir gently once to combine.

  5. Serve right away while the club soda is still fizzy.

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. Gin + cranberrytop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Gin + syruptop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Cranberry + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together210 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + syruptop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,234 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Gin + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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 (gin, cranberry, syrup):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against gin, cranberry, 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).