Skip to main content
Drink

Fruit Punch

Fruit Punch is a sweet beverage made with pineapple, lemon, orange, raspberry juice, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

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 Punch

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the chopped pineapples, juice of the lemons, juice of the oranges, raspberry juice, sugar, and water in a large bowl.

  2. Stir until the sugar is dissolved.

  3. Taste and add more sugar if necessary.

  4. Feel free to substitute any other fruit juice for the raspberry.

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.

Explore the science

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Pineapple + raspberrytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together195 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  4. Lemon + raspberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Orange + raspberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together521 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the acidity of the citrus and fruit juices.
Lemons
Provide acidity and bright flavour that cuts through the sweetness.
Oranges
Add citrus acidity and sweetness along with their juice.
Raspberry juice
Supplies the main fruit flavour and colour of the punch.
Pineapples
Add fruit pieces and sweet, tropical flavour to the punch.

The step that matters

Dissolve the sugar fully. Sugar dissolves much more easily in liquid that is stirred well and not cold, so undissolved crystals can sit at the bottom and make the sweetness uneven. Tasting after dissolving lets the cook adjust sweetness accurately.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Blackberryfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, orange, raspberry, 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.

You might also like

Raspberry VinegarRaspberry Vinegar214 recipesRaspberry ShrubRaspberry Shrub57 recipesOrange SyrupOrange Syrup47 recipesLemon WheyLemon Whey33 recipes