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Allen’s Root Beer Extract

A root beer beverage made by mixing Allen's Root Beer Extract with water, carbonating, and serving chilled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Beer and ginger work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 210 recipes. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Allen’s Root Beer Extract

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix the contents of the bottle with 6 gallons of water, then stir well to combine.

Carbonate and serve

  1. Allow to sit until carbonated.

  2. Serve chilled as a refreshing beverage.

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. Beer + gingertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together210 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Dandelion + gingertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Hops + gingertop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Beer + dandeliontop 42% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  5. Beer + hopstop 42% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Allen's root beer extract
Provides the main root beer flavor that the whole drink is built on.

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beer, dandelion, hops):

  1. Gingerthe original
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Clovefits less well
  4. Tarragonfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against beer, dandelion, hops. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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