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Whole Strawberries

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and sugar match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Whole Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the stalks from the strawberries and place them in a pan with syrup at the 'Small Thread' stage.

  2. Simmer the strawberries without boiling, then remove them and let them sit in an earthen pan overnight.

  3. Drain the strawberries, add fresh sugar to the syrup, and boil it.

  4. Return the strawberries to the syrup and simmer again, then let them sit in the pan for two days.

  5. Drain the strawberries again, add more sugar to the syrup, and boil it to the 'Large Pearl' stage.

  6. Add the strawberries back to the syrup, boil, skim well, and store in a pan.

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 + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 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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