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Julep, Pineapple

A pineapple cocktail with orange juice, raspberry syrup, maraschino liqueur, gin, sparkling Moselle, served over shaved ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and gin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 127 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Julep, Pineapple

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the sliced pineapple in a glass bowl.

  2. Add the orange juice, raspberry syrup, maraschino liqueur, and old gin.

  3. Pour in the sparkling Moselle and mix well.

  4. Serve in flat glasses over shaved ice.

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. Syrup + gintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Pineapple + raspberrytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together195 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  4. Orange + raspberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together521 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Pineapple + syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together568 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

Pineapple
Adds fruity sweetness and aroma as it steeps in the mixed liquors.
Gin
Provides the spirit backbone and aromatic botanical bitterness to the drink.
Maraschino liqueur
Adds sweet, almond-like cherry notes that round out the spirits.
Raspberry syrup
Adds sweetness and bright berry flavour, with colour.
Orange juice
Contributes acidity and citrus brightness that balances the sweetness.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, orange, syrup, gin. 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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