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Tutti-frutti Punch

A fruit punch made with lemon and orange syrup, grapes, tangerines, pineapple, and Maraschino cherries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange 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 Punch

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Boil 1 quart of water and 1 pound of sugar for 5 minutes.

  2. Add the grated rind of 2 lemons and 4 oranges, and boil for 5 minutes longer.

  3. Strain the syrup through cheesecloth and add 1 quart of cold water.

Assemble and serve

  1. Extract the juice from the lemons and oranges.

  2. Mix the juices with the halved grapes, sliced tangerines, pineapple slices, and Maraschino cherries.

  3. Serve well iced.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

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

  5. Orange + tangerinetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Sweetens the punch and, dissolved in boiling water, forms the base syrup.
Lemon and orange juice
Adds acidity and bright citrus flavor that balances the sweet syrup.
Lemon and orange rind
Contributes aromatic citrus oils to the syrup as it boils.
Malaga grapes
Add juicy pieces and sweetness to the punch.
Maraschino cherries with their liquor
Add sweetness, color and a cherry aroma from their liquor.

Swap the tangerine

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

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

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