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Punch a LA Regent

A punch made with champagne, brandy, rum, green tea, maraschino cordial, pineapple, sugar, lemon, and orange.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Punch a LA Regent

Ingredients

Directions

Make the punch

  1. Mix the champagne, brandy, and rum together.

  2. Peel and cut the pineapple into thin, small pieces, and add the rinds of the lemon and orange.

  3. Stir the strained juice of the lemon and orange into the champagne mixture.

  4. Add the maraschino cordial and green tea.

Store

  1. Store the punch in wide-mouthed bottles and keep on ice for weeks.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Rum + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Champagne + rumtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together137 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Brandy + rumtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

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

  5. Champagne + brandytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

What each ingredient does

Dry champagne
Provides the sparkling body and dry, light character of the punch.
Brandy
Adds strength and warm, fruity aroma to the base.
Green tea
Adds moisture and a subtle astringent bite that balances the sweetness.
Maraschino cordial
Contributes sweetness and a distinct cherry-almond aroma.
Lemon
Adds acidity and bright citrus flavor, with its rind contributing aromatic oils.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (champagne, brandy, green tea, rum, pineapple, sugar, orange):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against champagne, brandy, green tea, rum, pineapple, sugar, orange. 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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