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Cinnamon Comfits

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and syrup work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 990 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cinnamon Comfits

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the cinnamon in warm water for 2-3 hours until soft.

  2. Cut the cinnamon into thin pieces, about ½ inch long.

  3. Dry the cinnamon in the stove until sufficiently dry.

  4. In a pan over a charcoal fire, whisk syrup over the cinnamon while shaking the pan.

  5. Repeat this process 2-3 times a day until the cinnamon is white and has a good consistency.

  6. Once white, cover the cinnamon with syrup using a ladle, giving eight small charges and drying after each charge.

  7. Sift the cinnamon to remove dust each time before drying.

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. Cinnamon + syruptop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together990 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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