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Hawaiian Cocktail ~ Pog Punch

By aspicyperspective · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Passion fruit and champagne share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 3 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl butyrate, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

10 servings
Prep5 min

Ingredients

  • POG Juice

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. In a large punch bowl or pitcher, stir together the pink guava nectar, passion fruit juice and orange juice to make the POG juice.

  2. Refrigerate the POG juice until well chilled, about 30 minutes.

  3. Stir the chilled POG juice with the Malibu rum in the punch bowl.

  4. Cut the fresh tropical fruit into bite-sized pieces or thin slices for garnish.

  5. Just before serving, pour the dry champagne gently down the side of the bowl and stir once to mix.

  6. Add plenty of ice to the bowl or to each glass, then top with the tropical fruit garnish and serve right away.

By aspicyperspective. 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. Passion fruit + champagnetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  2. Rum + champagnetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Guava + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27 recipes

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

  4. Passion fruit + rumtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. Guava + passion fruittop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenol (green, grassy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the passion fruit

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

  1. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Mangobetter flavor fit
  4. Passion fruitthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against guava, orange, rum, champagne. 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).