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Brandy Rickey

A simple cocktail made with brandy, lime juice, ice, and fizz water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and brandy work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 165 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Brandy Rickey

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place one piece of ice in a glass.

  2. Squeeze the juice of half a lime into the glass.

  3. Add brandy to the glass.

  4. Fill the glass with fizz water.

  5. Stir with a spoon 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.

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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. Lime + brandytop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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 main flavour of the drink.
Lime juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness and aroma of the brandy.

“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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