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Strawberry Wine Iced

A chilled beverage made from mashed strawberries, lemon and orange juice, water, powdered sugar, and Maraschino liqueur.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Strawberry Wine Iced

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Mash the strawberries in a bowl.

  2. Add the lemon juice, orange juice, and water to the mashed strawberries.

  3. Let the mixture stand for 3 hours.

Sweeten and serve

  1. Strain the mixture over the powdered sugar and stir until fully dissolved.

  2. Serve very cold, adding the Maraschino liqueur just before serving.

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. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  3. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

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

Lemon and sugar 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

Strawberries
Provide the main fruit flavor and aroma, and release juice when mashed.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves readily into the cold liquid.
Lemons
Add acidity that brightens the fruit flavor and balances the sweetness.
Maraschino liqueur
Adds a cherry-almond aroma and extra sweetness added just before serving.

The step that matters

Let the mixture stand for 3 hours. Standing lets the acid from the lemon and orange juice draw flavor and color out of the mashed strawberries, so the drink tastes fruitier. Skipping or shortening this time leaves a flatter, paler result.

“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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