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Strawberry Nectar

A chilled strawberry drink made with strawberries, powdered sugar, and iced water, optionally garnished with lime.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and lime are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,332 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Strawberry Nectar

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the strawberry base

  1. In a bowl, combine the strawberries and powdered sugar.

  2. Fill a goblet a quarter full with the strawberry mixture.

Serve

  1. Top off the goblet with plain or aerated iced water.

  2. Add a slice of lime if desired.

Chill the water

  1. For ice-cold water, fill an unglazed earthenware jug with cold water.

  2. Stand the jug in a bowl of water and soak a clean kitchen towel in cold water.

  3. Wrap the towel around the jug, allowing it to rest in the bowl of water to chill.

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. Sugar + limetop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,332 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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 release juice that moistens the drink.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves easily into the juice of the strawberries.

The step that matters

Keep the towel wet around the jug. Water evaporating from the wet towel draws heat away from the jug, which chills the water inside. A dry towel cools very little, so the water stays warmer.

“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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