Why it works: Orange and grape match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,759 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
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Also mentioned in the method: crackers
Directions
"Put this in any liquid thing you will and drink it off."
— Romeo and Juliet, VI.
Summer Zephyr.
Cut into thin slices 1}^ pounds of rhubarb and cover with water. Add a stick of bark cinnamon and a bay leaf and cook until fruit becomes tender. After straining, add 1 cupful of sugar and simmer 10 minutes. Then add 1 pint of orange juice, the juice of 3 lemons and 3^ cupful of preserved ginger juice. Cool and serve in tall glasses with shaved ice.
Sassafras Mead. Three and one-half pounds brown sugar; 1}/^ pints molasses; 2 quarts boiling water; 3€ pound tartaric acid. Stir and strain. When cool, add 3^ ounce of essence of sassafras. Put in glass jars or bottles. To serve, use }i glass of syrup and 3^ glass of water. Add a small pinch of soda. Stir quickly and drink while foam- ing.
— Mrs. Dwight Cutler.
DRINKS AND BEVERAGES. 289
Mint Julep.
One quart water; 2 cups sugar; 1 pint claret wine; 1 cup straw- berry juice; 1 cup orange juice; juice 8 lemons; 13^2 cups boil- ing water; 12 sprigs fresh mint. Make syrup by boiling quart of water and sugar 20 minutes. Separate mint in pieces, add the boiling w^ater, cover, and let stand in warm place 5 minutes; strain, and add to syrup; add fruit juices and cool. Pour into punch bowl, add claret and chill with large piece of ice; dilute with water. Garnish with fresh mint leaves and whole strawberries.
Mint Sangaree.
Crush 2 or 3 sprays of mint with a lump of sugar. Put into a glass half full of cracked ice. Add 4 tablespoons of grape juice and fill the glass up with charged water. Shake and strain into an- other glass.
Juice of 2 lemons; juice of 3 oranges; juice of 1 pineapple; 1 cup of powdered sugar; 1 cup of halved cherries; shaved ice; water as needed. About 1 pint of grape juice or home-made wine is a good addition. If made when cherries are not available, grapes
can be used.
— Mrs. Robert McCord, New Albany, Ind.
One-half pound of sugar; 1 quart of luke warm cream; 1 glass of wine. Dissolve the sugar in the wine, then pour on the cream slowly, holding the cream pitcher high above the sugar and wine so as to make the mixture froth.
Egg Nog I.
One egg; speck of salt; 1 tablespoon sugar; % cup milk; 1}^ tablespoon wine or 1 tablespoon brandy. Beat the egg, add the sugar and salt; blend thoroughly, add the milk and liquor. Serve immediately.
Note: Have eggs and milk chilled before blending. A grat- ing of nutmeg may be substituted for the stimulant.
290 THE MENDELSSOHN CLUP COOK BOOK.
Egg Nog II.
One egg; 1 tablespoon sugar; speck of salt; ]A, cup of milk; 1 tablespoon brandy. Separate egg. Beat yolk, add sugar and salt and beat until creamy. Add milk and brandy. Beat the white until foamy, but not stiff and dry, and fold in lightly. Serve im- mediately.
Buttermilk.
Buttermilk should always be served ice cold. On a hot day a glass of buttermilk and a cracker or bit of salted toast will often prove a sufficient luncheon.
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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 + grapetop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,759 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
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Wine + grapetop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together764 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-p-menthene-8-thiol (grapefruit).
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Wine + brandytop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together2,423 recipes
Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
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Orange + minttop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together548 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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Grape + brandytop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together711 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the mint
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, orange, wine, berry, grape, cream, brandy):
- Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
- Gingerbetter flavor fit
- Clovebetter flavor fit
- Mintthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, orange, wine, berry, grape, cream, brandy. 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).
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