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Fruit Frappe

A chilled fruit beverage made with orange, lemon, pineapple, banana, peach, cherries, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 Frappe

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Press the juice from 6 oranges and 6 lemons.

  2. Add enough water to make 2½ quarts total.

  3. Dissolve 2 cups of sugar in the juice mixture.

  4. Freeze the mixture slightly.

Add fruit and serve

  1. Cut the remaining fruit into small pieces and add to the mixture.

  2. Serve in sherbet glasses with a spoonful of rich ice cream on top.

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 + bananatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Pineapple + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together168 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Banana + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together130 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

Oranges
Their juice provides the main body of the drink and a bright, aromatic citrus flavor.
Lemons
Their juice adds acidity that balances the sweetness and brightens the flavor.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the frozen mixture slushy rather than solid.
Bananas
Their soft flesh adds body and natural sweetness to the frappé.
Peaches
Add fruity flavor, sweetness and soft pieces to the frozen mixture.

The step that matters

Freezing the mixture slightly. Sugar lowers the freezing point of the juice, so the mixture only partly freezes into a slushy texture. Freezing too long turns it solid, while too little time leaves it liquid.

Swap the lemon

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

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

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