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Tutti Frutti

A fruit punch made with water, sugar, citrus, grapes, pineapple, oranges, banana, and maraschino cherries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon 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 ↓

Tutti Frutti

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Boil 1 quart of water for 5 minutes.

  2. Add the sugar and stir until dissolved.

  3. Add the grated rind of lemons and oranges.

  4. Boil for 10 minutes.

  5. Strain through cheesecloth.

Add the juice

  1. Add the remaining cold water.

  2. Strain the juice of lemons and oranges.

  3. Add the strained juice to the mixture with the remaining ingredients.

Serve

  1. Halve and seed the grapes.

  2. Pour over a cake of ice in a punch bowl.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Pineapple + bananatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Grape + bananatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Dissolves to sweeten the punch and balance the citrus acidity.
Lemons
Provides acidity and fragrant oil from the rind for a bright flavour.
Oranges
Adds juice and sweet citrus aroma from the rind.

Swap the tangerine

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (grape, sugar, orange, lemon, pineapple, banana):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Tangerinethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grape, sugar, orange, lemon, pineapple, banana. 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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