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Spinach Coloring

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Spinach and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 32% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,033 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Spinach Coloring

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove coarse stems from the spinach.

  2. Wash, drain, and chop the spinach.

  3. Squeeze the chopped spinach through coarse cheesecloth to extract the liquid.

  4. Heat the liquid gently, stirring steadily until the green pulp separates from the water.

  5. Strain the mixture through a fine cloth over a strainer.

  6. Rub the green pulp through the cloth.

  7. Dry and pulverize the green pulp.

  8. Mix the pulverized spinach with an equal quantity of sugar.

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. Spinach + sugartop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,033 recipes

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

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