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Mulled Wine

A hot beverage made by mixing beaten eggs, sugar, spiced water, and sweet wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Mulled Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mull

  1. Beat the eggs and sugar together until very light.

  2. Stir the egg mixture into the spiced water.

  3. Add the boiling hot sweet wine and mix well.

  4. Pour the mixture several times between two pitchers to make it light and foamy.

Serve

  1. Serve hot.

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. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + winetop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together9,581 recipes

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

  3. Egg + winetop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Beaten eggs thicken the drink and give it a light, foamy body.
Sugar
Sweetens the drink and helps the beaten eggs hold their light texture.
Sweet wine
Provides the main liquid and wine flavour, sweetness and aroma.

The step that matters

Adding the boiling hot wine to the egg mixture. Hot liquid added to beaten eggs can scramble them if added too fast. Stirring well while pouring in the wine helps the eggs blend smoothly into the drink.

“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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