Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 10,632 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Contains: tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
Directions
Prepare the lemonade
Make lemonade according to the usual recipe and add crushed strawberries in proportion of a cup of crushed berries to each quart of the lemonade.
Crush strawberries into a smooth pulp and run through a coarse sieve.
Put into a bowl the juice of three lemons and two oranges, a can of grated pineapple and one cup sugar.
Let stand an hour then put through a fruit press; add as much water as you desire and put into a large bowl with a block of ice.
On top put sliced pineapple cut in small pieces.
Make the punch
Dissolve one glass of logan-berry jelly and one glass of blackberry jelly in hot water; add juice from one bottle of Long's preserved cherries.
Place on ice until ready to serve.
Prepare in separate pans: juice from six lemons, six bananas cut in dice, cherries cut in halves, one-half cupful chopped almonds, one-half cupful chopped walnuts, one cupful orange juice, one cupful grated pineapple.
Fifteen minutes before serving put all together in punch bowl, adding sugar to taste and a large piece of ice.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.
Explore the science
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.
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Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together10,632 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
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Grape + pineappletop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together704 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).
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Grape + orangetop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,759 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
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Orange + pineappletop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,662 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
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Pineapple + blackberrytop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together30 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Strawberries (in the method)
- Add flavor and color to the lemonade and give it a fruity pulp.
- Lemons
- Provide acidity that balances the sugar and brightens the drink.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the lemon juice.
- Pineapple
- Adds fruity sweetness and body from the grated fruit and juice.
- Almonds (in the method)
- Add crunch and nutty flavor to the punch.
- Bananas
- Add body and mellow sweetness to the punch.
Flavor stand-ins for the walnut
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, grape, orange, pineapple, lemon, berry, blackberry):
- Almondbetter flavor fit
- Walnutthe original
- Beansabout as good a flavor fit
- Peasabout as good a flavor fit
Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, grape, orange, pineapple, lemon, berry, blackberry. 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).
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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