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Hurricane Recipe

The rum-based Hurricane is enlivened by passion fruit juice. The Hurricane may have been around before Pat O'Brien's French Quarter Bar began serving it in the...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Rum and pineapple work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 451 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Hurricane Recipe

1 drink

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

323Calories
4 gProtein
1 gFat
75 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Rum1/2 oz (15ml)32
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Passion Fruit Juicenot 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 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. Rum + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Pineapple + cherrytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together537 recipes

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

  3. Lime + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Lime + pineappletop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together469 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Swap the passion fruit

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rum, lime, pineapple, sugar, orange, cherry):

  1. Mangofits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Passion fruitthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rum, lime, pineapple, sugar, orange, cherry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.