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Bath Water Punch

"A fruity Halloween punch that will make your guests cringe! Feel free to use a variety of food coloring to achieve the desired color of punch. Decorate with desired plastic flies, eye balls, or plastic fingers! For the adults: throw in some vanilla vodka! Yummy!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Bath Water Punch

Why it works: Cherry and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 537 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Bath Water Punch

12 servings
Prep20 min

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By allrecipes. 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. Cherry + pineappletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together537 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Cherry + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together689 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Sugar + pineappletop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + orangetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

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

Sugar and orange barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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