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To Preserve Fruit Whole

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and spirit work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 141 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

To Preserve Fruit Whole

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the fruit into wide-mouthed bottles.

  2. Fill the bottles with clarified saturated syrup.

  3. Submerge the bottles in water in a copper pot.

  4. Bring the water to a boil.

  5. Cork the bottles tightly and store them in a cool place.

  6. Add a small quantity of spirit to each bottle to prevent fermentation if desired.

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 + spirittop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together141 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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