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Southern Picnic Recipe

A refreshing and quick drink that reminds one of warm Southern days. Easily batched for a party.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Mint and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 846 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Southern Picnic 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Mint + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together846 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Tea + minttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together71 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Tea + limetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Tea + syruptop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together129 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Lime + syruptop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together322 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the mint

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

  1. Gingerfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Corianderfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tea, lime, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.