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Granito Punch, Iced

A chilled punch made with sugar, citrus rinds, green tea, brandy, rum, syrups, lemon and orange juice, and champagne.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 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 ↓

Granito Punch, Iced

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grate the yellow rind of the orange and half a lemon onto the sugar.

  2. Mix the sugar with the green tea, brandy, rum, syrup, maraschino, and pineapple syrup.

  3. Add the juices of the lemons and orange.

Freeze and serve

  1. Pour in the champagne and mix well.

  2. Freeze the mixture as usual.

  3. Serve in 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.

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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. Rum + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Brandy + rumtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 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

Champagne
Adds sparkle and a light, crisp, dry character to the punch.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that balances the sweetness of the syrups.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps balance the acidity of the citrus.
Brandy
Adds warmth and depth of flavour and some alcohol-based body.
Rum
Adds rich, round flavour that complements the citrus and fruit syrups.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, orange, green tea, brandy, rum, syrup, pineapple):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, orange, green tea, brandy, rum, syrup, pineapple. 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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