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Strawberry Wine Iced

A chilled beverage made from mashed strawberries, lemon and orange juice, water, powdered sugar, and Maraschino liqueur.

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 ↓

Strawberry Wine Iced

Ingredients

Directions

Make the strawberry base

  1. Mash the strawberries in a bowl.

  2. Add the lemon juice, orange juice, and water.

  3. Let the mixture stand for 3 hours.

Finish and serve

  1. Strain the mixture over the powdered sugar.

  2. Stir thoroughly until the sugar is completely dissolved.

  3. Serve very cold, adding the Maraschino liqueur.

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. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  3. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the main fruit flavour and colour, and release juice when mashed.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves into the liquid to balance the citrus.
Lemons
Add acidity that brightens the sweetness and freshens the flavour.
Maraschino liqueur
Adds a cherry-almond aroma and extra sweetness when added just before serving.

The step that matters

Stir until the sugar is completely dissolved. Undissolved powdered sugar leaves a gritty texture and uneven sweetness. Stirring thoroughly after straining helps the sugar fully dissolve into the cold liquid.

“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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