Why it works: Cherry and syrup work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 339 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Cherry Water
Ingredients
Directions
Mix the cherry syrup with cold water.
Sweeten to taste.
Serve chilled.
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.
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Cherry + syruptop 19% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together339 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Cherry syrup
- Provides the main cherry flavour and sweetness, and colours the drink.
“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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