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Fruit De Limeade

A limeade flavored with lemons, oranges, blood orange, pineapple, cherry juices, and cherries, sweetened to taste.

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 ↓

Fruit De Limeade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a large vessel, combine water, tartaric acid, and lemons.

  2. Stir well and add sugar or sugar syrup to taste.

  3. Mix in the blood orange, pineapple, and cherry juices.

  4. Slice the oranges and add them to the mixture.

Serve

  1. When serving, add a few Messina cherries and a can of pineapples.

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. Pineapple + cherrytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together537 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Orange + cherrytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together689 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Lemon + cherrytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Lemons
Provide the main sour citrus flavor and acidity that defines the limeade.
Tartaric acid
Adds sharp, tart acidity to balance the sweetness of the sugar.
Sugar or sugar syrup
Adds sweetness to balance the tartness of the citrus and acid.
Blood orange juice
Contributes fruity citrus aroma, flavor and a deeper color.
Oranges
Add sweet citrus flavor and fragrant oils from the sliced fruit.

Swap the lemon

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

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

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