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Coffee Syrup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and condensed milk work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 804 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Coffee Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Put the mixed coffees in a percolator and add boiling water.

  2. Allow the coffee to macerate for about 12 hours before starting percolation.

  3. Percolate to yield 5 pints.

  4. For hot soda, add sugar.

  5. For cold soda, add sugar, condensed milk, caramel solution, fluid extract of coffee, and citric acid.

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. Sugar + condensed milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Coffee + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,344 recipes

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

  3. Coffee + condensed milktop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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