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Greater Knoxville Punch

A cold punch made with water, sugar, ginger, orange and lemon juices, ginger syrup, and Apollinaris water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Greater Knoxville Punch

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large pitcher, combine cold water and sugar, stirring until the sugar dissolves.

  2. Add Canton ginger, orange juice, lemon juice, and ginger syrup to the mixture.

  3. Finally, stir in the Apollinaris water and serve chilled.

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. Ginger + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,833 recipes

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

  3. Ginger + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Ginger + syruptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together950 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

Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the acidity of the citrus juices.
Orange juice
Adds fruity acidity and sweetness for a bright, citrus-forward punch.
Lemon juice
Adds sharp acidity that lifts and balances the sweetness.
Canton ginger
Adds spicy, aromatic ginger flavour that defines the punch.
Apollinaris water
Adds carbonation, giving the punch a lively, bubbly texture.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, ginger, lemon, syrup):

  1. Orangethe original
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Vanillafits less well
  4. Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, ginger, lemon, syrup. 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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