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Syrup White Pine Compound

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Pine and cherry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 80 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Syrup White Pine Compound

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the white pine, wild cherry, Balm of Gilead, Soikenard, and blood root in a bowl.

  2. Moisten the mixed drugs with 20 fluid ounces of the menstruum (alcohol, glycerin, and water).

  3. Transfer the mixture to a percolator without packing and cover tightly; let it stand for 24 hours.

  4. Pack the mixture firmly and pour on the menstruum; percolate until you obtain 5 pints 5 ounces of tincture.

  5. Retain this tincture as the finished product and continue percolation to exhaustion, pressing out the drugs with a tincture press.

  6. To the 5 pints 5 ounces of tincture, add 6.5 lbs of granulated sugar and shake until dissolved.

  7. If necessary, filter the syrup, then add 25.7 grains of morphine acetate dissolved in 9 fluid drams of chloroform and 3 fluid ounces of alcohol; shake well.

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. Pine + cherrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Cherry + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,598 recipes

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

  3. Pine + sugartop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together309 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the cherry

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

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Cherrythe original

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

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