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Hygienic or Preventive Vinegar

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,075 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Hygienic or Preventive Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Macerate the brandy, oils, and gum benzoin together for a few hours.

  2. Add the brown vinegar and strain or filter the mixture.

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. Clove + marjoramtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Brandy + clovetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,362 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Clove + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,386 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Brandy + vinegartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together344 recipes

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

  5. Marjoram + vinegartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together421 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the marjoram

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (brandy, clove, lavender, vinegar):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Allspicefits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Marjoramthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against brandy, clove, lavender, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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