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Pineapple Julep

A cocktail made with orange juice, raspberry syrup, Maraschino liqueur, Old Tom gin, sparkling Moselle, pineapple, and ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and gin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 127 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Pineapple Julep

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large glass bowl, combine the juice of 2 oranges, raspberry syrup, Maraschino liqueur, Old Tom gin, and Sparkling Moselle.

  2. Add the sliced pineapple and mix well.

  3. Fill the bowl with ice and serve in flat glasses.

  4. Garnish each glass with seasonal berries.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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. Syrup + gintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Raspberry + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together195 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  4. Orange + raspberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together521 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Syrup + pineappletop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Adds fresh fruit flavor and sweetness, and its juices carry the punch's tropical character.
Old tom gin
Provides the spirit base and a slightly sweeter, rounder botanical character than London dry gin.
Maraschino liqueur
Adds sweetness and a distinctive cherry-almond aroma that complements the fruit.
Raspberry syrup
Contributes sweetness and raspberry flavor, rounding out the acidity of the citrus.
Sparkling moselle
Adds light carbonation and lower alcohol, making the drink lively and refreshing.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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