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Vinegar of Squills

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From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Vinegar and spirit work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 125 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

Vinegar of Squills

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Macerate the dried squills with the vinegar in a glass vessel over gentle heat for 24 hours.

  2. Strain the mixture to separate the liquid and set it aside until the sediment settles.

  3. Add the proof spirit to the decanted liquid.

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. Vinegar + spirittop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together125 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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

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