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Italian Wine Lemonade

A chilled drink made with Marsala wine, lemon juice, raspberry syrup, sugar, ice, and water, garnished with seasonal fruit.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Italian Wine Lemonade

Ingredients

Directions

Make the lemonade

  1. Dissolve the sugar in a little water.

  2. Add the raspberry syrup and lemon juice.

  3. Fill a glass with cracked ice and pour in the Marsala wine.

  4. Top off with water and stir well.

Garnish and serve

  1. Garnish with seasonal fruits and serve with straws.

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Lemon + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,157 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Raspberry + winetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Marsala wine
Provides the main wine flavour and a rich, slightly sweet base for the drink.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the drink and balances the sweetness.
Fine sugar
Sweetens the drink and balances the acidity of the lemon juice.
Raspberry syrup
Adds fruity sweetness and aroma to the drink.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Raspberrythe original
  4. Figfits about as well

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