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Black Currant Cup

A chilled beverage made from weak green tea, black currant juice, sugar, and ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Black currant and sugar work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 393 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Black Currant Cup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the tea

  1. Mix the weak green tea and black currant juice.

  2. Add sugar until the mixture is sweet enough for your taste.

  3. Cool the mixture.

Serve

  1. Pour into glasses filled with 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.

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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. Black currant + sugartop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together393 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  2. Green tea + black curranttop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2 recipes

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

  3. Green tea + sugartop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together159 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

Green tea
Provides the base liquid and its mild, slightly bitter tea flavour.
Black currant juice
Adds fruity tartness and colour to the tea base.
Sugar
Adds sweetness, balancing the tartness of the black currant juice.

Swap the black currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (green tea, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Black currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against green tea, 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.

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