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Mirabelle Plums, Wet

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Plum and syrup work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 143 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Mirabelle Plums, Wet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prick the mirabelle plums all over.

  2. Soak the plums in cold water.

  3. Boil a pan full of water.

  4. Once boiling, add the plums and remove them when they float to the top.

  5. Transfer the plums back to cold water and drain them.

  6. Boil syrup until it reaches a little thread stage.

  7. Preserve the plums in the syrup as you would with green gages.

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. Plum + syruptop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together143 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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