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Fruit Punch

Fruit Punch is a citrus and pineapple beverage sweetened with sugar and raspberry syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 Punch

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Juice the lemons and oranges into a large bowl.

  2. Add the raspberry syrup and grated pineapple.

  3. In a separate container, mix the granulated sugar and cut sugar with the strong cold tea until dissolved.

  4. Combine the tea mixture with the fruit juices.

Finish and serve

  1. Slowly add the Appolinaris water and stir gently.

  2. Serve chilled over ice.

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Raspberry + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together195 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  4. Syrup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lemons
Provide acidity that balances the sweetness and brightens the punch.
Oranges
Add juice, mild sweetness and body to the punch.
Granulated sugar
Sweetens the punch and dissolves fully into the cold tea.
Raspberry syrup
Adds fruit flavour, colour and extra sweetness.
Appolinaris water
Adds carbonation, giving the punch lightness and fizz.

The step that matters

Slowly add the Appolinaris water and stir gently. Carbonated water loses its fizz quickly when stirred vigorously or poured in fast. Adding it slowly and stirring gently keeps the bubbles in the finished punch.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

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