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Fruit Cup

A chilled fruit cup served in glasses with crushed ice and garnished with maraschino cherries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Ramblers' club, Minneapolis. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange 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: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Also mentioned in the method: cheese

Directions

Prepare

  1. Arrange glasses for serving.

  2. Place 3 fresh strawberries, a teaspoon grated pineapple, a teaspoon each of orange and grapefruit pulp, a teaspoon lemon juice, as much syrup from preserved ginger, 6 ripe raspberries or a teaspoon raspberry juice, and sift powdered sugar over all into the bottom of each glass.

Serve

  1. Lay 3 maraschino cherries on top of each portion.

  2. Fill glasses, set in crushed ice until ready to serve.

By Ramblers' club, Minneapolis. [from old catalog]. 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.

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

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

  2. Orange + grapefruittop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together232 recipes

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

  3. Mint + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,998 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + grapefruittop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together183 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  5. Mint + grapefruittop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Add fruit flavour and a soft, juicy texture to each portion.
Raspberries
Add bright, tart fruit flavour and aroma to the base of each glass.
Crushed ice
Keeps the cup cold and slowly dilutes the fruit so it stays refreshing.

Flavor stand-ins for the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (brandy, lemon, orange, grapefruit):

  1. Rosemaryabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Mintthe original
  3. Peppermintabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Gingerabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against brandy, lemon, orange, grapefruit. 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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