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Pineapple Liquor

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,501 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Pineapple Liquor

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grate the apples and cover them with the double proof spirit.

  2. Let it sit for two weeks.

  3. Strain and filter the mixture.

  4. Dissolve the sugar in the water and add it to the strained mixture.

  5. Flavor with a little vanilla infusion.

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. Apple + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,501 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Apple + spirittop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  4. Spirit + vanillatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the apple

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

  1. Figfits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Applethe original

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

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