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Gin Sous

A chilled gin cocktail with rum, curacao, raspberry syrup, lime, sugar, shaved ice, soda, and nutmeg garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 236 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Gin Sous

Ingredients

Directions

Mix

  1. Mix the sugar with the lime juice.

  2. Add the lime rind.

  3. Pour in the Santa Cruz rum and Curacao.

  4. Add the raspberry syrup.

Shake and serve

  1. Fill the glass half-full with shaved ice.

  2. Shake well.

  3. Strain into a cocktail glass.

  4. Top with plain soda.

  5. Grate a little nutmeg on top before serving.

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. Lime + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Rum + raspberrytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Rum + nutmegtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together646 recipes

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

  5. Lime + rumtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together412 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Santa cruz rum
Forms the spirit base that gives the drink its main body and flavour.
Lime
Provides the sour acidity that balances the sweetness of the sugar and syrup.
White sugar
Adds sweetness to offset the sharpness of the lime juice.
Curacao
Adds orange-citrus aroma and a touch of sweetness to the rum.
Raspberry syrup
Contributes sweetness and fruity raspberry flavour.

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, lime, rum, syrup, nutmeg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, lime, rum, syrup, nutmeg. 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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