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Dorothy Ale

A citrusy cocktail made with orange juice, powdered sugar, egg, grape juice, port wine, shaved ice, and water, garnished with pineapple and cherry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 709 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Dorothy Ale

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Juice the orange and combine with powdered sugar, egg, grape juice, and port wine in a shaker.

  2. Add shaved ice and fill the shaker with plain water.

  3. Shake well and pour into a lemonade glass.

  4. Garnish with a slice of pineapple and a cherry.

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. Grape + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Pineapple + cherrytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together537 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Grape + cherrytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Orange + grapetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 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

Egg
Adds body and a silky, frothy texture to the drink when shaken.
Orange juice
Provides bright acidity and fresh citrus flavor.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the drink and dissolves easily in cold liquid.
Grape juice
Adds sweetness and fruity flavor with a deep color.
Port wine
Contributes depth, fruitiness and a touch of warmth to the flavor.

The step that matters

Shake well. Shaking with ice chills and dilutes the drink while mixing in the egg. Thorough shaking gives a smoother, frothier texture and keeps the egg from separating or sitting as a raw layer.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, egg, grape, port wine, pineapple, cherry):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, grape, port wine, pineapple, cherry. 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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