Name: Spirituous Cinnamon Water
Ingredients: 1 pound cinnamon bark; 1 gallon proof spirit; 1 gallon common water

Why it works: Cinnamon and spirit work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 150 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Spirituous Cinnamon Water

Ingredients

1 pound cinnamon bark
1 gallon proof spirit
1 gallon common water

Directions

Steep the cinnamon bark in the proof spirit and common water for two days.
Distill off one gallon of the mixture.

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.

Cinnamon + spirittop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together150 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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What each ingredient does

Cinnamon bark: Supplies the main aroma and flavour that the spirit extracts over the steeping period.
Proof spirit: Acts as the solvent that draws flavour compounds out of the cinnamon bark.

“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.