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Champagne Cocktail

Ring in the New Year with a high-impact cocktail that leaves you plenty of time to celebrate

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 3 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 ↓

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Serves 6

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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 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. Brandy + champagnetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together167 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Passion fruit + brandytop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6 recipes

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

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 (brandy, champagne):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against brandy, 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).