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Temperance Punch

A non-alcoholic fruit punch made with water, Karo syrup, citrus juice, pineapple, and cracked ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange 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 ↓

Temperance Punch

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the pineapple into small dice.

Make the punch

  1. In a bowl, combine water, Karo syrup, and juice from the lemons and oranges.

  2. Fill the bowl about halfway with cracked ice.

  3. Pour the syrup mixture over the ice and fruit.

  4. Stir gently 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 + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Lemon + pineappletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

  4. Syrup + pineappletop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Syrup + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,235 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

Karo syrup
Provides sweetness and a smooth, full body to the punch.
Lemons
Their juice adds acidity that balances the sweetness of the syrup.
Oranges
Their juice adds sweetness and fruity aroma alongside the lemon acidity.
Pineapple
Adds sweet, tropical fruit flavor and small pieces of texture.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Limefits better
  2. Vanillafits about as well
  3. Blueberryfits about as well
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against syrup, lemon, orange. 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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