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Kgg Lemonade

A chilled lemonade made with egg, shaved ice, thick syrup, lemon juice, and ice water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and sugar match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Kgg Lemonade

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Prepare thick syrup by stirring equal parts water and granulated sugar until dissolved, then boil for three minutes and cool.

Whip the egg

  1. Break an egg into a glass.

  2. Add shaved ice and cover with a tin cap or saucer.

  3. Shake up and down until very frothy.

  4. Alternatively, use a bowl and a Dover egg beater.

Assemble and serve

  1. Add thick syrup or powdered sugar to sweeten, lemon juice, and enough ice water to fill the glass.

  2. Serve immediately.

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 + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  3. Egg + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Syrup + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Whipped to a frothy foam that gives the drink its light, creamy body.
Granulated sugar
Sweetens the drink and, dissolved into syrup, blends evenly into the cold liquid.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness and balances the richness of the egg.

The step that matters

Shake until very frothy. The egg must be beaten until it foams and holds air, since that foam is what gives the drink its light texture. Stopping early leaves a flat, heavy drink.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Figfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, syrup, sugar. 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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