Name: Gin Toddy
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon sugar; 1 or 2 lumps of broken ice; ⅓ cup Holland gin; a little water

Why it works: Sugar and gin work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 344 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Gin Toddy

Ingredients

1 teaspoon sugar
1 or 2 lumps of broken ice
⅓ cup Holland gin
a little water

Directions

Dissolve the sugar in a little water.
Add the broken ice to a whiskey glass.
Pour in the Holland gin.
Stir well 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.

Sugar + gintop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together344 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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What each ingredient does

Sugar: Adds sweetness that balances the strong, dry flavour of the gin.
Holland gin: Provides the spirit base and the main aroma and flavour of the drink.

“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.