Why it works: Tea and grape work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 156 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓
Iced Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Brew the tea stronger than usual in the morning.
Strain the tea and pour it into a clean glass bottle or stone jug.
Chill the tea in the ice chest until ready to serve.
Serve
Serve the tea in goblets without cream.
Garnish a plate with well-washed grape leaves and serve ice on the side.
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.
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Tea + grapetop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together156 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Tea
- Provides the main flavour and aroma of the drink.
- Ice
- Chills the tea and gradually dilutes it as it melts.
The step that matters
Brew the tea stronger than usual. Ice melts into the tea as it is served, adding water and diluting the flavour. Starting with a stronger brew lets the tea still taste full after the ice has melted in.
“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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