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Mixed Fruit Punch

A chilled beverage made with grape juices, orange and lemon juice, ginger ale, and charged water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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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 ↓

Mixed Fruit Punch

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the blue grape juice, white grape juice, and sugar or syrup in a large bowl.

  2. Add the ginger ale and charged water.

  3. Serve over chopped ice.

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.

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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.

  1. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Ginger + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,833 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Ginger + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

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

  4. Grape + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

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

  5. Grape + gingertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Blue grape juice
Provides the main fruity flavor and color of the punch.
White grape juice
Adds additional grape flavor and sweetness to the base.
Ginger ale
Adds fizz and a light spiced sweetness to the punch.
Charged water
Adds carbonation, making the punch lighter and more effervescent.
Orange juice
Adds bright citrus acidity and fruity aroma to balance the sweetness.
Lemon juice
Adds sharp acidity that brightens the flavor and balances sugar.

Swap the grape

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

  1. Limefits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Blackberryfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, ginger, orange, lemon. 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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