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Why it works: Red currant and black currant share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 72 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Fruit-wines

Ingredients

Directions

  1. After fermentation, add 5.64 grams of salicylic acid to every 100 quarts of wine.

  2. For raspberry wine, mix 1 quart of raspberry juice with ¼ quart of blackberry juice.

  3. For currant wine, use 4/5 quart of red currants and 1/5 quart of black currants.

  4. Add a couple of handfuls of crushed hazel-nuts or walnuts to the barrel.

  5. Include 2 ounces of bitter almonds, peels of 10 lemons, 3 ounces of cassia, and a few handfuls of bruised wild plums to enhance flavor.

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. Red currant + black curranttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  2. Raspberry + red curranttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together155 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (fruity, sweet).

  3. Raspberry + blackberrytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together278 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  4. Blackberry + black curranttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Raspberry + black curranttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wine, sugar, raspberry, blackberry, red currant, black currant, almond):

  1. Pistachiofits better
  2. Hazelnutfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wine, sugar, raspberry, blackberry, red currant, black currant, almond. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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