Name: Blackberry or Dewberry Cordial
Ingredients: two quarts blackberry juice; one pound loaf sugar; quarter ounce ground cloves; quarter ounce ground allspice; quarter ounce ground cinnamon; four grated nutmegs; one tea- spoonful poured on a little pounded ice

Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Blackberry or Dewberry Cordial

Ingredients

two quarts blackberry juice
one pound loaf sugar
quarter ounce ground cloves
quarter ounce ground allspice
quarter ounce ground cinnamon
four grated nutmegs
one tea- spoonful poured on a little pounded ice

Directions

(Medicinal.)
Two quarts blackberry juice, one pound loaf sugar, four grated nutmegs, quarter ounce ground cloves, quarter ounce ground allspice, quarter ounce ground cinnamon. Simmer all together for thirty minutes in a stew pan closely covered, to prevent evaporation. Strain through a cloth when cold, and add a pint of the best French brandy. Soothing and effica- cious in the summer complaints of children. Dose, one tea- spoonful poured on a little pounded ice, once or several times a day, as the case may require. Whortleberry cordial may be made by the same recipe. Good old whiskey may be used for either in the absence of brandy.
WINES. 239

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

141Calories

2 gProtein

2 gFat

32 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Blackberry	1 cup (144g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Nutmeg	1 tsp ground (2.2g)	12
Cloves	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Allspice	1 tsp ground (1.9g)	5

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson.". 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. See the original page.

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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.

Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together11,917 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,189 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Clove + allspicetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together7,874 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Allspice + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,536 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Allspice + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,331 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, clove, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, tea):

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Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, clove, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, tea. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.