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Tutti-fruitti Punch

A fruit punch made with water, sugar, grapes, tangerine, lemons, pineapple, oranges, and banana.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Tutti-fruitti Punch

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. In a pot, boil 1 quart of water with the sugar for 5 minutes.

  2. Add the grated rind of the lemons and oranges, and boil for an additional 10 minutes.

  3. Strain the syrup through cheesecloth and mix in 1 quart of cold water.

Finish the punch

  1. Add the juice of the lemons and oranges, along with the sliced fruit.

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. Pineapple + bananatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Grape + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Grape + bananatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

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

  5. Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Sweetens the punch and, dissolved in boiling water, forms the syrup base.
Lemons
Add acidity that balances the sweetness and brightens the flavor.
Oranges
Add citrus aroma and juice, with rind oils that flavor the syrup.
Pineapple
Adds fruity sweetness and juicy body to the punch.

The step that matters

Strain the syrup before adding the cold water. Straining through cheesecloth removes rind bits and pulp so the syrup stays clear and smooth. Adding the cold water after straining cools and dilutes the syrup evenly before the fruit goes in.

Swap the tangerine

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Tangerinethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grape, sugar, orange, lemon, pineapple, banana. 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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