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Strawberry Punch

A chilled fruit punch made with strawberries, raspberries, sugar, port wine, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and port wine work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 805 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Strawberry Punch

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the berries

  1. Remove the stems from the strawberries and crush them.

  2. Pass the juice through a fine sieve or cloth.

Make and chill the punch

  1. Make a syrup by dissolving the sugar in the water.

  2. Mix the syrup with the berry juice.

  3. Add the port wine and chill the mixture for several hours before serving.

  4. Serve in small glasses.

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.

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.

  1. Sugar + port winetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together805 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the main fruit flavour and colour, and most of the juice.
Sugar
Sweetens the punch and balances the tartness of the berries.
Port wine
Adds depth and body, and a richer, fuller flavour to the punch.
Raspberries
Add extra berry aroma and a brighter fruit flavour.

The step that matters

Pass the juice through a fine sieve or cloth. Straining removes pulp and seeds, giving a clear, smooth punch instead of a gritty or cloudy one.

“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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