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Eoyal Punch

A chilled fruit punch made with pineapple, lemon, orange, sugar, water, brandy, and white wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Eoyal Punch

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Boil water and sugar together until thick like syrup.

  2. Add juice of the pineapples to the boiling mixture.

  3. Pour the hot syrup over the grated rinds and juice of all the fruit to draw the flavor.

Finish and freeze

  1. Chop the pineapple and add it to the strained juice.

  2. Freeze the mixture until solid.

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. Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Brandy + white winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together620 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + white winetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Pineapple + white winetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Provides sweetness and, with the water, forms a thick syrup that body the punch.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that balances the sweetness and brightens the flavor.
Orange juice
Adds fruity acidity and sweetness that rounds out the citrus flavor.
Brandy
Adds aroma and alcohol, which keeps the frozen mixture softer and less icy.
White wine
Adds acidity and a light fruity aroma to the punch.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, orange, pineapple, brandy, white wine. 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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