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Malt Wine

A fermented beverage made from malt, sweet-wort, tun, raisins, candy, and brandy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Isabella Beeton · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Wort and brandy work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18 recipes. Both carry phenethyl acetate, which smells rose, honey. The science ↓

Malt Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the liquor

  1. Boil the sugar and water together for 10 minutes, then skim the mixture well.

  2. Put the liquor into a convenient-sized pan or tub and allow it to cool.

  3. Mix it with the sweet-wort and tun.

Ferment

  1. Let it stand for 3 days.

  2. Put it into a barrel.

  3. Ferment for another three days or more.

  4. Bung up the cask.

  5. Keep it undisturbed for 2 or 3 months.

Finish and bottle

  1. Add the raisins (whole), the candy, and brandy.

  2. Bottle the wine after 6 months.

By Isabella Beeton. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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.

  1. Wort + brandytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenethyl acetate (rose, honey).

  2. Brandy + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,768 recipes

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

  3. Wort + raisintop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet-wort
Supplies the sugars that yeast ferments into alcohol.
Raisins
Add fruit flavour and sweetness to the finished wine.
Candy (in the method)
Adds extra sugar and sweetness to the wine.
Brandy
Raises the alcohol content and adds a spirited aroma.

“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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