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Iced Tea

A chilled tea served without cream, sweetened and garnished with ice and grape leaves.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Tea and grape work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 156 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Iced Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Make the tea

  1. Brew tea stronger and sweeter than usual.

  2. Strain the tea and pour it into a clean jug or glass bottle.

  3. Chill the tea in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

Serve

  1. Serve the tea in goblets without cream.

  2. Garnish with small pieces of broken ice and well-washed grape leaves.

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. Tea + grapetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together156 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + grapetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,490 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Tea + sugartop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,204 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Tea
Provides the main flavour and body of the drink.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the tea's bitterness.

The step that matters

Brew tea stronger and sweeter than usual.. Chilling and diluting with melting ice mutes flavour, so the tea must start stronger and sweeter than normal to taste right when served.

Swap the grape

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against tea, 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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