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The Fedora Recipe

Not a classic cocktail by any means, this concoction is one we'd add to the list of Prohibition-era drinks if only we could rewrite history.This recipe was featured...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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The Fedora Recipe

Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 10,634 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The Fedora Recipe

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By chow. 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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Malt + orangetop 26% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Malt + lemontop 32% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

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

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Bananaabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against malt, orange. 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).