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Pineapple Punch

A chilled pineapple beverage made with pineapple, boiling water, raspberry or cherry juice, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Pineapple Punch

Why it works: Pineapple and raspberry work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 195 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Pineapple Punch

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Peel, remove eyes, and finely chop the pineapple.

  2. Pour boiling water over the pineapple and let it stand until cold.

Strain and flavour

  1. Strain the mixture, pressing to extract as much liquid as possible.

  2. Add raspberry or cherry juice and lemon juice to the strained liquid.

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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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.

  1. Pineapple + raspberrytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together195 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + lemontop 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

Ripe pineapple
Provides the main fruit flavour and most of the liquid in the punch.
Boiling water
Helps draw flavour and liquid out of the chopped pineapple.
Raspberry or cherry juice
Adds fruity flavour and colour to the punch.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness of the pineapple.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Peachfits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, raspberry. 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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