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Pineapple-lemonade Flips

A chilled cocktail of pineapple juice, lemon syrup, heavy cream, and soda water, served with a citrus garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,964 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Pineapple-lemonade Flips

Ingredients

Directions

Make the drink

  1. Combine pineapple juice, lemon syrup, and heavy cream in a shaker.

  2. Fill the shaker nearly full with iced soda water.

  3. Pour into a 12-ounce glass, creating a nice foaming head.

Serve

  1. Garnish with a slice of lemon or orange.

  2. Serve immediately and stir well to prevent curdling.

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.

Explore the science

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. Syrup + creamtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Lemon + syruptop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Pineapple + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,574 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple juice
Adds fruity sweetness and acidity to the drink.
Lemon syrup
Adds sweet citrus flavor that balances the juice.
Heavy cream
Adds richness and body, and helps create a creamy texture.
Iced soda water
Adds carbonation, which lifts the foam and lightens the drink.

The step that matters

Stir well before serving. Cream mixed with acidic juice can curdle or separate if left unstirred. Stirring just before serving keeps the drink smooth and evenly mixed.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, syrup, cream. 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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