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 ↓
Roman Punch
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare lemon ice as the base.
Once the lemon ice is frozen, mix in 1 cup of rum.
Alternatively, use orange ice instead of lemon ice.
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.
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Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together10,634 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
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Rum + orangetop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together801 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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Lemon + rumtop 19% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,341 recipes
Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the orange
The recipe marks orange as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, rum):
- Limefits about as well
- Orangethe original
- Pineapplefits about as well
- Mangofits less well
Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, rum. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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