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Hot Weather Punch

A chilled punch made with claret or Rhine wine, citrus juices, sugar, rum, chartreuse, maraschino, brandy, fruit, and sparkling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 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 ↓

Hot Weather Punch

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place a large lump of ice in a punch bowl.

  2. Pour in the wine, lemon juice, orange juice, and sugar. Add the rum, chartreuse, maraschino, and brandy.

  3. Stir in the strawberries, cherries, pineapple flakes, orange slices, lemon slices, and currants.

  4. Pour in the Apollinaris and stir again. Let it stand for a few minutes to chill.

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Rum + brandytop 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. Brandy + curranttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

What each ingredient does

Claret or rhine wine
Forms the base of the punch and supplies most of its liquid volume.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the acidity of the lemon and orange juice.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the punch and balances the sweetness.
Brandy
Adds strength and warming depth of flavour to the punch.
Apollinaris or sparkling water
Adds carbonation, giving the punch lightness and fizz.

Swap the currant

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wine, lemon, orange, sugar, rum, brandy, 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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