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Blackberry Gin Fizz

Look, guys. It’s Saturday. I don’t want to blow anyone’s cover or make you feel worse if you shivered out the week in an over-air-conditioned cubicle but I have to tell you: I think everyone is on vacation but us. I think they’re on beaches, building sandcastles, accumulating freckles, having for lunch and and . I don’t think they’re thinking about us at all. I’ve already broken my please-don’t-be-so-dull-as-to-discuss-the-weather-Deb rule and I don’t want to do it again, nevertheless, given the state of That Which Shall Not Be Named, I think it’s about time we stopped pretending that we’re actually going to be turning on our stoves until sometime in October.

By smittenkitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Gin and basil work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

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By smittenkitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Gin + basiltop 22% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Lime + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together505 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Gin + limetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together115 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Sugar + gintop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together344 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sugar + limetop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together3,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the basil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, gin, lime):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Mintbetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Basilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, gin, lime. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).