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Preserved Garlic

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and clove are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,368 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Preserved Garlic

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the skin from each clove of garlic.

  2. Simmer the garlic in water until tender.

  3. Soak the garlic in fresh water for two days, changing the water each day.

  4. Drain the garlic on a sieve and cover with clarified sugar.

  5. The next day, drain the syrup and boil it for five minutes.

  6. Repeat boiling the syrup every other day for about four times until it thickens to the consistency of good cream.

  7. Once cold, seal the garlic as directed for other preserves.

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. Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Clove + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together17,182 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  3. Garlic + sugartop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,208 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Clove and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 17,182 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, sugar):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Allspicefits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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