Name: Strawberry Trappi
Ingredients: 1 pint preserved or fresh strawberry juice; ½ cup orange juice; ¼ cup lemon juice; juice from 1 can of pineapple; sugar to taste; 1 quart ice water

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 ↓

Strawberry Trappi

Ingredients

Directions

Make the punch

Combine strawberry juice, orange juice, lemon juice, and pineapple juice in a bowl.
Sweeten the mixture to taste and let it stand for 2 hours.
Mix the fruit juice mixture with 1 quart of ice water.

Serve

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.

Explore the science

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.

Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,634 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Strawberry + pineappletop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together433 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,664 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Strawberry + orangetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together726 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Lemon + pineappletop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,964 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberry juice: Provides the main flavor and color of the punch.
Orange juice: Adds sweetness and bright fruit flavor.
Lemon juice: Adds acidity that balances the sweetness.
Pineapple juice: Adds tropical fruit sweetness and body to the punch.

Swap the lemon

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

Vanillafits better
Mangofits better
Bananafits better
Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against strawberry, orange, pineapple, 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.