Name: Crimean Lemonade
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons white or brown sugar; 1 tablespoon lime juice; 1 pint water

Why it works: Sugar and lime are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,332 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Crimean Lemonade

Ingredients

2 tablespoons white or brown sugar
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 pint water

Directions

In a basin, combine the sugar and lime juice and mix well together.
Add the water and stir until fully combined.

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.

Sugar + limetop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,332 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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What each ingredient does

White or brown sugar: Provides sweetness that balances the sharpness of the lime juice.
Lime juice: Adds the sour, acidic bite that defines the lemonade's flavour.

“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.