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Fruit Lemonade

Fruit Lemonade is a beverage made with fruit juice, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Landmarks Club · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 94 ingredients
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Why it works: Vermouth and wine work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 120 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: egg (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Combine one pint boiling water, one cup sugar, two quarts ice water, juice of three lemons, and one can grated pineapple. Put sugar.

  2. Bring boiling water over the fire and cook for five minutes; add lemon juice.

  3. When cold, add pineapple.

  4. When serving, add ice water and a dozen sliced strawberries.

By Landmarks Club. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

  1. Vermouth + winetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together120 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Sherry + champagnetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,632 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,289 recipes

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

  5. Brandy + champagnetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together167 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Sweetens the drink and balances the sharpness of the citrus.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity and bright citrus flavour.
Pineapple
Adds fruit flavour and aroma to the punch.

Flavor stand-ins for the berry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, brandy, lemon, sherry, orange, champagne, lime):

  1. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  2. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Berrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, brandy, lemon, sherry, orange, champagne, lime. 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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