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To Distil Caudle-Water

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Peppermint and orange work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 423 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

To Distil Caudle-Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Steep the herbs in red wine or the bottoms of strong beer overnight.

  2. Distil the mixture in a hot still quickly.

  3. Serve as a fine caudle to take as bitters.

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. Peppermint + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together423 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Orange + red winetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together288 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Peppermint + red winetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Lavender + orangetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Lavender + pepperminttop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the peppermint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lavender, orange, red wine):

  1. Rosemaryfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Clovefits better
  4. Peppermintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lavender, orange, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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