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Brandy Fix

A cocktail made with brandy, lime juice, pineapple syrup, Chartreuse, sugar, and ice, garnished with grapes and berries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and grape match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 709 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Brandy Fix

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a glass, combine the sugar and lime juice.

  2. Add the pineapple syrup and Chartreuse.

  3. Fill the glass with cracked ice.

  4. Pour in the brandy and stir with a spoon.

  5. Garnish with grapes and berries in season and serve with a straw.

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. Pineapple + grapetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Lime + pineappletop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together469 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Pineapple + brandytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together298 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Brandy + grapetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together711 recipes

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

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 warming alcoholic character of the drink.
Pineapple syrup
Adds sweetness and fruity flavour that balances the lime's acidity.
Lime juice
Adds acidity that brightens the drink and balances the sweetness.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps dissolve into the lime juice.

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, pineapple, syrup, brandy, grape):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, pineapple, syrup, brandy, grape. 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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