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Pomegranate Water Ice

A frozen drink made from pomegranate seeds, syrup, lemon juice, cochineal, orange‑flower water, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange 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 ↓

Pomegranate Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Remove the ruby seeds from the pomegranates and place them on a fine sieve over a basin.

  2. Bruise the seeds with the back of a wooden spoon to extract the juice.

Mix and freeze

  1. Mix the pomegranate juice with ½ cup of strong syrup, lemon juice, cochineal, orange-flower water, and crushed sugar.

  2. Freeze the mixture in the usual way for about 20 minutes.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Pomegranate + orangetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Pomegranate + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together225 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Syrup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Pomegranate + syruptop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50 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

Pomegranates
Provide the main juice and tart, fruity flavour of the ice.
Strong syrup
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point so the ice stays soft.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the pomegranate flavour and balances the sweetness.

Swap the pomegranate

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

  1. Vanillafits about as well
  2. Pomegranatethe original
  3. Limefits about as well
  4. Figfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against syrup, lemon, orange, 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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