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Orange Water Ice

A chilled beverage made from orange juice and syrup with rind pieces.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Orange Water Ice

Why it works: Orange and syrup are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,179 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Orange Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Juice the 12 ripe oranges using a lemon squeezer.

  2. Soak the rind of 3 oranges in 1 pint of warm syrup for 1 hour.

Freeze

  1. Mix the orange juice with the soaked syrup and freeze.

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 + syruptop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,179 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Oranges
Supply the juice and, through their rind, the aromatic oil that flavours the syrup.
Warm syrup
Sweetens the ice and carries flavour from the soaked orange rind.

“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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