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Roman Punch

A chilled drink made with lemon ice and rum.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Roman Punch

Why it works: Lemon and rum are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,341 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Roman Punch

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare lemon ice as the base.

  2. Freeze the lemon ice.

  3. After freezing, add 1 cup of rum and stir well to combine.

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 + rumtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

What each ingredient does

Lemon ice
Forms the frozen, slushy base that gives the punch its texture and sharp citrus flavour.
Rum
Adds aroma and flavour, and lowers the freezing point so the punch stays softer when frozen.

“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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