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A Maraschino Punch

A punch made with water, sugar, citrus rinds and juice, sliced fruit, grapes, and maraschino cherries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange 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 ↓

A Maraschino Punch

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Boil 1 quart of water and 1 pound of sugar for 5 minutes.

  2. Add the grated rinds of 2 lemons and 4 oranges to the syrup and boil for 5 more minutes.

  3. Strain the mixture through a cloth.

Assemble and serve

  1. Add the strained juice of the lemons and oranges, 1 quart of cold water, sliced tangerine oranges, banana, pineapple, and Malaga grapes.

  2. Pour the mixture over a block of ice in a punch bowl and serve when thoroughly chilled.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Banana + pineappletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Pineapple + grapetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Banana + grapetop 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

Granulated sugar
Sweetens the punch and, once dissolved in boiling water, forms the base syrup.
Lemon and orange rinds
Add aromatic citrus oil and fragrance to the syrup as it boils.
Lemon and orange juice
Adds acidity and bright citrus flavour that balances the sugar.
Maraschino cherries and their liquor
Provide cherry flavour and sweetness from the liquor, plus colour from the fruit.

Swap the tangerine

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

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

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