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Strawberries, Whole, Wet

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and apple work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 742 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Strawberries, Whole, Wet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pick the largest strawberries on a dry day, three to four days after rain.

  2. In a preserving pan, boil syrup over high heat for 30 minutes.

  3. Add strawberries to the boiling syrup, ensuring they are not overcrowded.

  4. Boil strawberries for 20 minutes, skimming off any scum with paper.

  5. If strawberries start to break, remove them immediately and transfer to pots.

  6. Once cool, cover strawberries with apple jelly, ensuring pots are completely dry.

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. Syrup + appletop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together742 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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