Skip to main content
Drink

Fruit Lemonade

A chilled beverage made from lemon, orange, pineapple, raspberry shrub, water, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

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 ↓

Fruit Lemonade

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Juice the lemons and oranges into a large pitcher.

  2. Add the grated pineapple and raspberry shrub.

  3. Sweeten the mixture to taste with sugar.

  4. Pour in 2 quarts of water and stir well.

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.

Explore the science

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. Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Pineapple + raspberrytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together195 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  4. Lemon + raspberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

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

  5. Orange + raspberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together521 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Lemons
Provides sharp acidity that brightens the drink and balances sweetness.
Oranges
Adds juice volume and mild sweetness along with citrus aroma.
Grated pineapple
Contributes tropical fruit flavour and body from its juice and pulp.
Raspberry shrub
Adds concentrated fruit flavour and tartness from its vinegar-based fruit base.
Sugar
Sweetens the drink, rounding out the acidity of the citrus and shrub.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Blackberryfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, orange, raspberry, 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.

You might also like

Raspberry VinegarRaspberry Vinegar214 recipesRaspberry ShrubRaspberry Shrub57 recipesOrange SyrupOrange Syrup47 recipesLemon WheyLemon Whey33 recipes