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Whisky Cobbler

A simple cocktail mixing whisky, sugar, orange slices, and ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bourbon whisky and sugar work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 99 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Whisky Cobbler

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a tumbler, combine the whisky and sugar.

  2. Add the orange slices.

  3. Fill the tumbler with ice and shake well.

  4. Sip through a straw.

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. Bourbon whisky + sugartop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together99 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Bourbon whisky + orangetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + orangetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Sugar and orange barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 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

Whisky
Provides the spirit base and the main flavor of the drink.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the whisky's strength and bitterness.
Orange
Adds bright citrus aroma and a touch of acidity.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bourbon whisky, 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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