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Sherry Cobbler

A fruit cobbler made with pineapple, oranges, lemon, berries, powdered sugar, sherry wine, and water, served over pounded ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon 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 ↓

Sherry Cobbler

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a large bowl, layer the sliced pineapple, oranges, lemon, and berries.

  2. Cover the fruit with powdered sugar in layers.

  3. Add pounded ice on top of the sugar.

Finish and serve

  1. Pour in the sherry wine and twice as much water.

  2. Stir well before serving into 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 + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Sherry + pineappletop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together228 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Wine + pineappletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together325 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

Powdered sugar
Sweetens the fruit and dissolves into the juices as it sits.
Sherry wine
Adds body and a fortified, nutty aroma to the drink.
Pineapple
Contributes sweet-tart juice and fruity flavor to the punch.
Oranges
Provide citrus acidity and aromatic oils from the peel and flesh.
Lemon
Adds bright acidity that balances the sugar and sherry.

Swap the lemon

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

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

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