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Fruit Punch

Fruit Punch is a sweet beverage made with sugar, citrus, pineapple, grape juice, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Fruit Punch

Ingredients

Directions

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

  2. Cool the syrup, then add the grated pineapple, grape juice, and the juice from the lemons and oranges.

  3. Dilute with water to your desired strength; adding 3 quarts of water will make it moderately strong.

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

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Orange + grapetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

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

  5. Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Dissolved into a syrup to add sweetness and balance the sour citrus juices.
Pineapples
Grated pineapple adds fruit flavor and body to the punch.
Grape juice
Adds fruity sweetness and color to the punch.
Lemons
Their juice adds acidity that brightens the punch.
Oranges
Their juice adds sweetness and aroma along with acidity.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, orange, 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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