Why it works: Cider and lime work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 97 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓
How to Make Cider Wine
Ingredients
Directions
Ferment
Set aside some new cider to ferment for 2 to 3 weeks.
After fermentation, add 1 to 2 pounds of crushed sugar for each gallon of cider.
Taste the cider to ensure the desired flavor is achieved.
Adjust and clarify
Pour out 1 quart of cider and add ¼ ounce of sulphate of lime for each gallon.
Stir the mixture and return it to the fermenting liquid.
Set aside to settle until clear.
Bottle and carbonate
Carefully draw off the clear cider and bottle it.
Seal the bottles tightly for a few days to achieve carbonation.
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.
Explore the science
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.
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Cider + limetop 24% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together97 recipes
Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
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Cider + sugartop 27% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together3,308 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Sugar + limetop 29% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together3,332 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- New cider
- Forms the base liquid that ferments into the wine.
- Crushed sugar
- Adds sweetness and feeds fermentation to build the drink's alcohol and flavor.
- Sulphate of lime
- Helps the cider settle and clear by encouraging particles to drop out.
The step that matters
Seal the bottles tightly. Carbonation comes from trapped carbon dioxide produced by remaining fermentation. If bottles are not sealed tightly, the gas escapes and the cider stays flat.
Swap the lime
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cider, sugar):
- Applefits better
- Vanillafits better
- Pearfits better
- Limethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against cider, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
“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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