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Salpicon of Fruit Punch

A chilled fruit punch served in glasses, made with diced pineapple, shaddocks, grapes, rum, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Mary Ronald · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and rum work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 197 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

Salpicon of Fruit Punch

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Cut a pineapple into small dice.

  2. Remove the bitter skin carefully from the segments of three shaddocks and cut them into pieces.

  3. Cut the grapes in two, remove the seeds, and mix all the fruit together.

Make the rum syrup

  1. Put a cupful of rum and a cupful of sugar into a saucepan on the fire and let them come to the boiling point.

  2. Pour the rum and sugar mixture over the fruit and let stand until cold.

Freeze

  1. Put the mixture into a freezing-can and pack in ice and salt for several hours, or until ready to serve.

  2. Stir the mixture together carefully every little while.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

143Calories
1 gProtein
0 gFat
29 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Rum1/2 oz (15ml)32

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Mary Ronald. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Grape + rumtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together197 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Rum + sugartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,908 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Grape + sugartop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,490 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

White grapes
Provide juicy pieces that add moisture and body to the frozen mixture.
Rum
Adds aroma and warmth, and keeps the mixture softer when frozen.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, giving a softer frozen texture.
Shaddocks
Contribute tart citrus flavour and juicy segments that balance the sweetness.

The step that matters

Stirring during freezing. Stirring every so often breaks up ice crystals as the mixture freezes, keeping the texture smooth and even rather than hard and icy.

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rum, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pineapplefits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rum, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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