Name: Crab Apple Vinegar
Ingredients: Crab apples; Molasses

Why it works: Crab and apple work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 343 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Crab Apple Vinegar

Ingredients

Crab apples
Molasses

Directions

Grind the crab apples.
Press out the juice.
Reduce the juice by one-third.
Treat it like common cider vinegar.

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.

Crab + appletop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together343 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Apple + molassestop 22% of all pairs

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Cooked together970 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Crab + molassestop 37% of all pairs

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Cooked together11 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).