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Orange Granit

A chilled orange dessert made by freezing a mixture of orange pulp, juice, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Orange Granit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the syrup

  1. Peel six oranges, removing all pulp.

  2. Slice the oranges and sprinkle with sugar.

  3. Set aside for several hours to create a syrup.

Make the granita

  1. Squeeze juice from the remaining six oranges.

  2. Add the juice to the syrup, draining it well.

  3. Add water and mix well.

  4. Strain the mixture.

  5. Pour the strained mixture into a freezer.

  6. Freeze until lightly frosted.

Serve

  1. Serve in small 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 + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

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

Orange and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Oranges
Provide the juice and flavor base, and their peel and pulp are macerated with sugar into a syrup.
Sugar
Sweetens the granita and, drawn out by the orange slices, forms the syrup that flavors the ice.
Orange juice
Supplies extra liquid and citrus flavor for the granita base.
Water
Dilutes the mixture to a drinkable strength and gives the ice its texture when frozen.

The step that matters

Freeze until lightly frosted. Freezing without stirring forms large ice crystals; the mixture should be scraped or stirred as it freezes to get a fine, flaky granita rather than a solid block.

“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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