Skip to main content
Drink

Currant Drink

A chilled drink made with currant jelly, water, ice, orange, and pineapple.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Orange and pineapple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,664 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Currant Drink

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve currant jelly in cold filtered water.

  2. Add chipped ice, a slice of orange, and half a slice of pineapple.

  3. Serve as a refreshing summer drink.

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.

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Currant + pineappletop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Currant + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,034 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Currant jelly
Provides the main sweetness and fruity flavour of the drink.
Orange
Adds citrus aroma and a little acidity to the drink.
Pineapple
Adds tropical fruit aroma and a touch of sweetness.

Swap the currant

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

  1. Mangofits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, pineapple. 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.

More currant drink recipes

Black 6 See all 2 →

You might also like

Orange SyrupOrange Syrup47 recipesOrange Water IceOrange Water Ice28 recipesPineapple LemonadePineapple Lemonade18 recipesPineapple PunchPineapple Punch18 recipes