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Elder Flower Vinegar

A vinegar infused with elder flowers, made by steeping flowers in white wine vinegar and filtering.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,776 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Elder Flower Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

Infuse

  1. Place the elder flowers in a stone jar.

  2. Add the white wine vinegar.

  3. Set the jar in the sun for 14 days.

Filter and bottle

  1. Filter the vinegar through a new flannel bag.

  2. Pour the filtered vinegar into small clean glass bottles.

  3. Cork and seal the bottles well.

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. White wine + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,776 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Elder flowers
Supply the floral aroma that the vinegar picks up during steeping.
White wine vinegar
Acts as the liquid base that extracts and carries the flower flavour.

The step that matters

Set the jar in the sun for 14 days. Steeping must be given enough time for the flower aroma to move into the vinegar. Keeping the jar sealed in a clean vessel also limits spoilage while the infusion develops.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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