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Apple Syrup

A sweet liquid made by combining plain syrup with apple pieces, tartaric acid, saffron, and apple essence.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and saffron work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Apple Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine 1 gallon of plain syrup with natural apple pieces.

  2. Add 1 teaspoon of tartaric acid.

  3. Stir in liquid saffron and apple essence to taste.

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 + saffrontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Syrup + appletop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together742 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Apple + saffrontop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

What each ingredient does

Plain syrup
Provides sweetness and body as the base of the syrup.
Natural apple pieces
Contribute apple flavour and aroma to the syrup.
Tartaric acid
Adds sharpness that balances the sweetness.
Liquid saffron
Adds colour and a subtle aroma.
Apple essence
Reinforces the apple aroma and flavour.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (syrup, saffron):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against syrup, saffron. 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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