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Jack Rabbit Cocktail

A gin and vermouth cocktail with orange juice and grenadine, served over cracked ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Gin and vermouth share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 94 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Jack Rabbit Cocktail

Ingredients

Directions

Mix

  1. Juice the orange into a shaker.

  2. Add grenadine, dry gin, and Italian vermouth.

  3. Fill the shaker with cracked ice.

Shake and serve

  1. Shake well and strain into a cocktail 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. Gin + vermouthtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together94 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Orange + gintop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together158 recipes

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

  3. Orange + vermouthtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together83 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Orange juice
Adds bright acidity and fresh citrus flavor that balances the sweetness.
Grenadine
Adds sweetness, pomegranate flavor and a red color.
Dry gin
Forms the spirit base and contributes botanical aroma and strength.
Italian vermouth
Adds herbal, slightly sweet body and lowers the drink's overall strength.

The step that matters

Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass. Vigorous shaking chills the drink and dilutes it slightly with melted ice, softening the alcohol and blending the juice, grenadine and vermouth. Straining keeps ice shards out of the glass.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (gin, vermouth):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Orangethe original
  4. Cherryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against gin, vermouth. 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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