Why it works: Ginger and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,409 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Ginger Ale in Punches
Ingredients
Directions
Use 1 quart of ginger ale instead of water to make the sherbets for the punches.
Add sauce to the ginger ale punch if desired.
Serve the punch to twelve people.
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.
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Ginger + saucetop 19% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together1,409 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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