Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓
Pomona Frappé
Ingredients
Directions
Make the syrup
Boil sugar and water for twenty minutes to make a syrup.
Make the frappé
Add cider, orange juice, and lemon juice.
Cool, strain, and freeze to a mush.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Orange | 1 medium (131g) | 62 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
| Cider | not in our table | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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.
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Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together10,634 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
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Cider + orangetop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together396 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together53,532 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Sugar + orangetop 20% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together19,212 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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Cider + lemontop 24% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together986 recipes
Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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
- Sugar
- Sweetens the drink and, once boiled into syrup, helps keep the frozen texture smooth.
- Sweet cider
- Provides the main apple flavour and liquid base of the frappé.
- Orange juice
- Adds sweet citrus flavour and extra liquid to the mixture.
- Lemon juice
- Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness and balances the flavour.
The step that matters
Freeze to a mush. Freezing while stirring or breaking up ice crystals keeps the texture soft and spoonable rather than hard and icy. Sugar lowers the freezing point, so the mixture stays partly slushy when frozen.
Swap the lemon
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cider, orange):
- Applefits better
- Vanillafits better
- Pineapplefits about as well
- Lemonthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cider, orange. 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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