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Fruit Syrups

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Currant and syrup work together. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 329 recipes. The science ↓

Fruit Syrups

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the liquor from assorted fruits in a bowl.

  2. Add Heavy Golden Syrup or Sugar to sweeten to your taste.

  3. Strain the mixture through several layers of muslin.

  4. Preserve the strained fruit syrup in sterilized vacuum bottles.

  5. Use the syrup to make fruit drinks, jellies, or desserts.

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. Currant + syruptop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together329 recipes

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