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Babycham and Brandy with Passion Fruit Cocktail

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Passion fruit and lime work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 55 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Chill two serving glasses in the fridge for 20 minutes.

  2. In a jug, combine the brandy, Babycham, passion fruit juice and lime juice.

  3. Stir well, then refrigerate the mixture for 10 minutes until very cold.

  4. Pour the cocktail into the chilled glasses and serve straight away.

By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Passion fruit + limetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Brandy + passion fruittop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6 recipes

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

  3. Brandy + limetop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (brandy, passion fruit):

  1. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  3. Apricotbetter flavor fit
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against brandy, passion fruit. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).