Why it works: Red currant and strawberry work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 83 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓
Juice of Red Currants
Ingredients
Directions
Gather well-ripened red currants and crush them on a fine sieve.
Press the remaining marc to extract all the juice and mix it with the first extraction.
Perfume the mixture with a little strawberry juice.
Pass the mixture through a finer sieve.
Bottle the juice and place it in a water bath, monitoring it closely.
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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Red currant + strawberrytop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together83 recipes
Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
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