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Ginger Ale Frappe

A chilled beverage made with lemon, spices, sugar, pineapple, oranges, ginger ale, and blackberry juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Ginger Ale Frappe

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Cut the lemon skin into odd little spiral twists.

  2. Add a pinch each of cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and whole cloves.

  3. Mix in the granulated sugar, flaked pineapple, and sliced oranges.

  4. Allow the fruit mixture to stand in a cold place for at least three hours.

Assemble and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a large pitcher.

  2. Slowly add the ginger ale and blackberry juice.

  3. Serve immediately in small chilled mugs.

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. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Allspice + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Cinnamon + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Nutmeg + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

What each ingredient does

Granulated sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws juice out of it as it stands.
Ginger ale
Provides the carbonation and sweet ginger flavour that make up the drink's body.
Blackberry juice
Adds colour and tart berry flavour to the drink.
Sliced oranges
Contribute juice, citrus acidity and aroma to the mixture.

The step that matters

Slowly add the ginger ale and blackberry juice.. Ginger ale is carbonated, and pouring it quickly causes heavy foaming and loss of fizz. Adding it slowly, down the side of the pitcher, keeps more carbonation in the drink.

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, clove, sugar, orange):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, clove, sugar, 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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