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Brandy Daisy

A cocktail made with brandy, citrus juices, raspberry syrup, sugar, ice, and fizz water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,289 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Brandy Daisy

Ingredients

Directions

Mix and shake

  1. In a shaker, combine sugar, lemon juice, orange juice, lime juice, raspberry syrup, and brandy.

  2. Fill the shaker with cracked ice and shake well.

Strain and serve

  1. Strain the mixture into a glass.

  2. Top with fizz water and serve.

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. Lemon + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,289 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  3. Orange + limetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Lemon + raspberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 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

Brandy
Provides the spirit base and the warm, rich backbone of the drink.
Raspberry syrup
Adds sweetness and the main raspberry flavour.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the drink and balances the sweetness.
Orange juice
Adds citrus sweetness and body to the mixture.
Lime juice
Adds sharp citrus acidity and aroma.

The step that matters

Shake well with cracked ice. Vigorous shaking chills the drink and melting ice dilutes it slightly, softening the alcohol. Shaking too briefly leaves the drink warm, harsh and unbalanced.

Swap the lime

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Blackberryfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Limethe original

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