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Sauterne Cup

A chilled cocktail made with Sauterne wine, soda water, mint, orange, and strawberry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Sauterne Cup

Why it works: Orange and strawberry work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 726 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Sauterne Cup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cup

  1. Strain the Sauterne wine and chill it on ice.

  2. Just before serving, add the chilled soda water.

Garnish and serve

  1. Garnish each glass with a few mint leaves, a slice of orange, and a strawberry.

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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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. Orange + strawberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together726 recipes

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

  2. Mint + orangetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together549 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Mint + strawberrytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together263 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Wine + strawberrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together217 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  5. Wine + orangetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,046 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Sauterne wine
Provides the main wine flavor and sweetness that defines the cup.
Soda water
Adds carbonation and lightness, making the cup refreshing and effervescent.

The step that matters

Adding the soda water just before serving. Carbonation escapes over time, so adding the soda water late keeps the cup lively and bubbly rather than flat.

Swap the mint

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Peppermintfits better
  3. Rosemaryfits about as well
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wine, orange, strawberry. 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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