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Gimlet Recipe

Originally a gin-based drink with lime juice, the Gimlet has gained much more favor with the vodka crowd. Philip Marlowe in Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Gimlet Recipe

Why it works: Rose and lime work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 53 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Gimlet Recipe

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By chow. 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. Rose + limetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Gin + limetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together115 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Gin + rosetop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (gin, rose):

  1. Orangefits about as well
  2. Limethe original
  3. Raspberryfits about as well
  4. Lemonfits about as well

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