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Pineapple Punch

A refreshing pineapple beverage with lemon, raspberry or cherry juice, sugar syrup, and sparkling Apollinaris.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Pineapple Punch

Why it works: Pineapple and raspberry work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 195 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Pineapple Punch

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Peel, eye, and finely chop the pineapple.

  2. Pour boiling water over the pineapple and let it stand until cold.

  3. Drain the mixture, pressing to extract as much juice as possible.

Mix and serve

  1. Add raspberry or cherry juice, lemon juice, and a syrup made by boiling sugar with water.

  2. Before serving, add a bottle of Apollinaris.

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. Pineapple + raspberrytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together195 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  5. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Provides the main fruit juice and flavor of the punch.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the acidity of the lemon and fruit juices.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness and flavor of the punch.
Raspberry or cherry juice
Adds color and fruity flavor to the punch.
Apollinaris
Adds carbonation, giving the punch a lively, fizzy texture.

The step that matters

Drain the mixture, pressing to extract as much juice as possible.. Pressing the chopped pineapple after it has steeped in boiling water releases the juice that carries most of the flavor. Under-pressing leaves flavor in the pulp and yields a weaker punch.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, raspberry, 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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