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To Make Walnut Mead

A fermented honey beverage flavored with walnut leaves.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Honey and walnut work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 554 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

To Make Walnut Mead

Ingredients

Directions

Make the must

  1. Boil the water and honey together for 45 minutes.

  2. Pour the boiling mixture over the walnut leaves.

  3. Let it stand overnight.

Ferment and age

  1. Remove the leaves and add the yeast.

  2. Allow it to ferment for 2 to 3 days.

  3. Bottle the mead and let it stand for 3 months before serving.

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. Honey + walnuttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together554 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Honey
Supplies the sugars that yeast ferments, and most of the sweetness.
Yeast
Ferments the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide.

The step that matters

Add the yeast after the liquid has cooled. Yeast cells can be killed by very hot liquid, which would stop fermentation before it starts. Letting the mixture stand overnight lets it cool enough for the yeast to survive and begin working on the sugars.

“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.

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