Name: A Summer Beverage
Ingredients: 2 quarts of raspberries; 3/4 pound of good white granulated sugar to every pint of juice; one teaspoonful to a glass of cold water is the way to prepare; 1 cupful of granulated sugar; 1 cupful of molasses; 1 cupful of water; 1/2 teaspoonful cream tartar; 1 cupful of grated chocolate; 1 cupful of milk; 1 cupful of sugar; 1/2 cupful of water; 1/2 cupful of vinegar; 1 teaspoonful of vanilla; 3/4 cupful of pounded hickory nuts placed in the pan before pouring on the taffy; 1 cupful of peanuts; 1 pound of confectioner's sugar; 8 drops of oil of peppermint; 1/4 teaspoonful of cream of tartar; 1 teaspoonful of sugar into a cup; 1 pint of granulated sugar; 1 pint of water; 3/4 cupful of vinegar; 1/2 cupful of butter; 3 pints of sugar; 1/2 pint each of vinegar; 1 tablespoonful of butter added when almost done boiling; 1 tablespoonful of butter; 1 teaspoonful of soda; 1 cupful of cream; one cup of milk

Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

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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.

Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,187 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Chocolate + vanillatop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,020 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Vanilla + nutstop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together638 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together35,032 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Raspberries: Provide the main flavour and colour of the drink.
Good white granulated sugar: Sweetens the juice and helps preserve it.
Good vinegar: Adds acidity that gives the drink its tang and helps preserve it.

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, molasses, cream, chocolate, milk, vinegar, vanilla):

Almondfits better
Chestnutfits better
Hazelnutfits better
Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, molasses, cream, chocolate, milk, vinegar, vanilla. 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.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Peanut	1 oz (28g)	161
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Raspberry	1 cup (123g)	64
Molasses	1 tbsp (20g)	58
Maple Syrup	1 tbsp (20ml)	52
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Walnut	1 walnut half (4g)	26
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Water	not in our table	0
Hickory Nut	not in our table	0
Peppermint	not in our table	0
Nut	not in our table	0
Meat	not in our table	0
Coffee	not in our table	0
Cake	not in our table	0
Nuts	not in our table	0

A Summer Beverage