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Cider Cup

A punch made with cider, brandy, Curacao, Maraschino, orange, lemon, club soda, ice, and mint garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Cider Cup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a punch bowl, combine the cider, brandy, Curacao, Maraschino, sliced orange, and sliced lemon.

  2. Add a large piece of ice and stir well.

  3. Top with Club soda or siphon.

  4. Garnish with mint 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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + minttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,998 recipes

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

  3. Cider + brandytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together404 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

  4. Orange + minttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together549 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Brandy + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,706 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

Cider
Provides the main liquid base and most of the punch's apple flavour and sweetness.
Brandy
Adds spirit strength and warm, fruity aroma to the punch.
Curacao
Adds orange-flavoured sweetness and aroma that complements the sliced orange.
Maraschino
Adds sweet cherry-like flavour and aroma to the punch.

Swap the mint

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

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Allspicefits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cider, brandy, orange, lemon. 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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