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Royal Warrant Jubilee Punch

Hix bartender Nick Strangeway reveals his patriotic cocktail of Earl Grey tea, gin, raspberries, blackcurrant and champagne

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Royal Warrant Jubilee Punch

Why it works: Ginger and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,154 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Royal Warrant Jubilee Punch

Serves 6 - 8

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

101Calories
2 gProtein
0 gFat
26 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 6 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Teanot in our table0
Ginnot in our table0
Champagnenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcgoodfood. 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. Ginger + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

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

  2. Tea + gingertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together216 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Cherry + gingertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together293 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Tea + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together610 recipes

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

  5. Cherry + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the cherry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tea, gin, ginger, lemon, champagne):

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Peachfits about as well
  4. Cherrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tea, gin, ginger, lemon, champagne. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.