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Ginger Quench

A chilled pineapple and ginger drink served over ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon 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 ↓

Ginger Quench

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Boil sugar and water for 3 minutes.

Mix and serve

  1. Cool the mixture and add pineapple juice, orange juice, ground ginger, and lemon juice.

  2. Fill glasses half full with cracked ice.

  3. Pour the mixture into the glasses and serve.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Orange + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,833 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Ginger + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Pineapple + gingertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together559 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Dissolves into the boiled water to make a syrup that sweetens the drink.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that balances the sweetness of the syrup and juices.
Ground ginger
Provides the spicy, aromatic flavour that defines the drink.
Pineapple juice
Contributes fruity sweetness and body to the drink.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Limefits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Blackberryfits about as well
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, ginger, lemon, 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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