Skip to main content
Drink

Sherry-cobbler

A chilled beverage made with lemonade, sherry wine, ice, and optional pineapple.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Sherry and pineapple work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 228 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Sherry-cobbler

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a tumbler, stir together the lemonade and sherry wine.

  2. Add pounded ice to the mixture.

  3. If desired, add sliced pineapple.

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. Sherry + pineappletop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together228 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Wine + pineappletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together325 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Sherry + winetop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Lemonade
Adds sweetness and citrus tartness that balance the sherry.
Sherry wine
Provides the main flavor, with a dry, nutty, fortified-wine character.
Pounded ice
Chills the drink and gradually dilutes it as it melts.

Swap the pineapple

The recipe marks pineapple as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sherry, wine):

  1. Grapefits about as well
  2. Applefits about as well
  3. Pineapplethe original
  4. Plumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sherry, wine. 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

Wine WheyWine Whey111 recipesRaisin WineRaisin Wine64 recipesEgg WineEgg Wine58 recipesElderberry WineElderberry Wine51 recipes