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Cranberry Rum Punch

"There's rum in this wonderful, sparkling cranberry punch with lemon and lime slices. With bright red, yellow and green colors, this punch makes an attractive accompaniment to your party's food."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Cranberry Rum Punch

Why it works: Ginger and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,154 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Cranberry Rum Punch

8.5 cups
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

141Calories
1 gProtein
0 gFat
29 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cranberry1 cup raw (100g)46
Rum1/2 oz (15ml)32
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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

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

  2. Cranberry + gingertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Cranberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together210 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Ginger + rumtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together229 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Sugar + rumtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,908 recipes

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

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

Swap the cranberry

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

  1. Limefits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Cranberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, ginger, rum, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.