Why it works: Cider and cheese work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 89 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓
For Making Cider Vinegar
Ingredients
Directions
Pour fresh cider into clean barrels and let it ferment until active fermentation stops.
Rack off the cider, clean the barrels, and fill them four-fifths full.
Place the barrels outdoors in sunlight and insert a long-necked bottle into each bunghole.
When freezing weather arrives, move the barrels to a warm cellar and cover the bunghole with cheese cloth.
Once the desired acidity is reached, rack off the vinegar, clean the barrels, fill them completely, and seal with a tight bung.
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.
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Cider + cheesetop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together89 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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