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Licorice Gums

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Licorice and anise work together. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15 recipes. Both carry alpha-terpineol, which smells lilac, floral. The science ↓

Licorice Gums

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Break up the licorice paste into fine pieces and soak it overnight.

  2. Melt the soaked licorice paste in a kettle.

  3. Prepare a batch of No. 3 hard gums.

  4. While cooking the hard gums, add the melted licorice paste.

  5. Once done, color the mixture black using powdered charcoal mixed with alcohol.

  6. Add oil of anise to taste.

  7. Pour the mixture into warm starch.

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. Licorice + anisetop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

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

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