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Black Halloween Punch

Cast a deliciously dark pall over your Halloween punch bowl.

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Black Halloween Punch

Why it works: Orange and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,833 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Black Halloween Punch

1 gallon
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

175Calories
2 gProtein
0 gFat
44 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Soft Drinknot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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. Orange + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,833 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Grape + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Grape + gingertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Soft drink + sugartop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (grass, green).

  5. Sugar + gingertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together14,054 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Sugar and ginger barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 14,054 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

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (soft drink, orange, sugar, ginger):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against soft drink, orange, sugar, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.