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Italian Wine Lemonade

A chilled drink made with raspberry syrup, lemon juice, cracked ice, and 100% Marsala wine, garnished with seasonal fruit.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,109 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Italian Wine Lemonade

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine raspberry syrup and lemon juice in a glass.

  2. Add cracked ice and pour in the Marsala wine.

  3. Stir well and garnish with seasonal fruits.

  4. Serve with straws.

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. Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,157 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Raspberry + winetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together303 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Raspberry + syruptop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together377 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Marsala wine
Provides the main wine base and its fortified, lightly sweet flavour.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the drink and balances the sweetness of the syrup.
Raspberry syrup
Adds sweetness and fruity flavour to balance the lemon's tartness.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Raspberrythe original
  4. Pearfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against syrup, lemon, wine. 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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