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Cherry Punch

A chilled beverage made with cherry juice, water, tea, sweetener, ice, and orange slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cherry and orange work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 689 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Cherry Punch

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine cherry juice, water, and tea in a pitcher or punch bowl.

  2. Sweeten to taste.

  3. Add cracked ice.

  4. Float sliced oranges on top.

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. Cherry + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together689 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Tea + orangetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together333 recipes

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

  3. Cherry + teatop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Cherry juice
Provides the main fruit flavor, color, and tartness of the punch.
Strong tea
Adds tannin for a light bitter edge that balances the fruit sweetness.

Swap the cherry

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against tea, 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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