Skip to main content
Drink

Truit Punch

A fruit punch made with sugar syrup, tea, fruit juices, pineapple, strawberry syrup, and sparkling water, served over ice with cherries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Truit Punch

Ingredients

Directions

Make the punch

  1. Make a syrup by boiling sugar and water.

  2. Add tea, fruit juices, pineapple, and strawberry syrup.

  3. Let stand for 10 minutes and strain.

  4. Add enough ice water to make 1½ gallons of liquid.

Serve

  1. Turn into a large punch bowl and serve over ice with Maraschino cherries and Appollinaris water.

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. Strawberry + pineappletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together433 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Strawberry + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together726 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Dissolves into the boiled syrup to sweeten the punch.
Lemon and orange juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness and balances the flavour.
Tea
Adds tannins and a light bitter note that gives the punch body.
Strawberry syrup
Adds fruit flavour and sweetness to the punch.
Pineapple
Adds fruity sweetness and juice that adds volume and flavour.

Swap the strawberry

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, tea, syrup, lemon, orange, pineapple. 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

Orange SyrupOrange Syrup47 recipesLemon WheyLemon Whey33 recipesLemon WineLemon Wine31 recipesOrange Water IceOrange Water Ice28 recipes