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Gin Punch

A chilled gin cocktail with raspberry syrup, powdered sugar, lemon juice, orange slice, Maraschino, and ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange 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 ↓

Gin Punch

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill a large bar glass halfway with ice.

  2. Add raspberry syrup and powdered sugar, then dissolve in seltzer.

  3. Pour in the Holland gin and lemon juice.

  4. Add the cut-up orange slice and Maraschino.

  5. Fill the glass with more ice, shake well, and garnish with pineapple and berries.

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

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

  2. Syrup + gintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Syrup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Raspberry + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together521 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Holland gin
Provides the spirit base and main alcoholic character of the punch.
Raspberry syrup
Adds sweetness and fruity flavour that balances the gin and lemon.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the punch and offsets the sweetness.
Powdered sugar
Dissolves readily to add sweetness to the punch.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Limefits better
  2. Vanillafits about as well
  3. Pineapplefits about as well
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against syrup, sugar, wine, gin, lemon, orange. 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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