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Why it works: Clove and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 14,027 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, tree nuts, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Also mentioned in the method: fish

Directions

  1. Sour Pickles

  2. 1 peck green tomatoes 1 lb. figs 1 lb. seeded raisins 1 cup vinegar 4 cups sugar 20 cloves A few sticks cinnamon

  3. Sweet Pickles

  4. Tomato and Fig Pickles

  5. One peck of green tomatoes sliced and salted in layers, place in granite boiler over night. In the morning drain off brine and rinse in cold water.

  6. Chop up a pound of figs, add to the tomatoes, cover with vinegar and boil twenty minutes; add 1 pound of seeded raisins, 1 cup of vinegar, 4 cups of sugar, 20 cloves and a few sticks of cinnamon tied in a cheese cloth bag, and cook together slowly for 3/4 of an hour.

  7. LUCRETIA L. BLANKENBURG.

  8. Lemon Butter

  9. 6 eggs 3 very large lemons (rind and juice) 2 cups sugar 2 tablespoons water butter size of walnut

  10. Mix all together with Dove egg beater and cook until it boils. Watch that it does not burn.

  11. Kumquat Preserves

  12. Cut the Kumquats into halves, pick out seeds, cover with cold water and bring to a boil. In the meantime have your syrup boiling--1 pint sugar to 3 pints water.

  13. Drain fruit and put in syrup and simmer slowly for 1 hour. Take out fruit and continue to simmer syrup until it begins to get thick.

  14. Put the fruit into syrup--place preserving kettle in pot of boiling water and let them, or let the water continue boiling until syrup is thick as you like it. Put 1/4 teaspoon fine salt in first water, as it adds a fine flavor. Grate stem off skin deep.

  15. STATE OF WASHINGTON OFFICE OF GOVERNOR OLYMPIA.

  16. December 22, 1914.

  17. Editress Suffrage Cook Book:

  18. I have at hand your letter of the 16th inst., asking an expression from me regarding Woman Suffrage in the State of Washington.

  19. Replying, I desire to say that the women of the State of Washington have had the right to vote for something more than three years. I know of no one who was in favor of giving them this right who to-day opposes it, and large numbers of those who were opposed now favor women having the ballot. The results in the State of Washington certainly indicate that women assist in public affairs, rather than otherwise, by having the right to vote.

  20. Agreeable to your request, I am sending a photograph of myself under separate cover; also card carrying my autograph.

  21. Yours very truly, ERNEST LISTER, Governor.

  22. Hire me twenty cooks. --Shakespeare

  23. Prunes and Chestnuts

  24. 3 lbs. dried prunes 2 lbs. large chestnuts 1/2 lb. Sultana raisins 1 table spoon butter 1/2 cup of sugar 1/3 cup of vinegar Pinch of cloves 2 tea spoons of flour

  25. Peel chestnuts and boil until skin can be removed. Boil prunes and raisins together until soft, add chestnuts, sugar, salt, cloves and butter, when well cooked thicken with flour and vinegar stirred together.

  26. Heavenly Hash

  27. 2 boxes red raspberries 2 quarts red currants 2 quarts cherries 1 quart gooseberries

  28. Stem currants and seed cherries, then measure fruit. To each cup of fruit allow equal amount of sugar. Put the fruit in kettle and add 1/2 cup of water; when it comes to boil add sugar and boil 20 minutes, then put in jelly glasses.

  29. Apple Butter

  30. 1 peck tart apples (made into sauce and strained) 1 quart grape juice 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups light brown sugar 2 teaspoons nutmeg

  31. Boil two hours or longer.

  32. Orange Marmalade

  33. 6 oranges 2 lemons

  34. Slice in small pieces, add six pints of water and let stand in covered dish for 24 hours. Then boil 1 1/4 hours; let stand another 24 hours. Then add pint for pint of sugar with the mixture and boil until it jells. (About 45 minutes).

  35. Rhubarb and Fig Jam

  36. Cut five pounds rhubarb into inch pieces without peeling. Add one pound figs, four pounds sugar, the grated yellow rind and juice of one lemon and let stand all night. In the morning simmer for an hour. Nut meats may be added if desired.

  37. Brandied Peaches

  38. Take off skins with boiling water. For each pound of fruit allow 1/2 cupful of sugar and 1/2 pint of water. When syrup is boiling, put in peaches, a few at a time, and cook until done, but not too soft. Just pierce with straw.

  39. Spread on platters to cool.

  40. When cool, put in jars and fill up with the syrup mixed with just as much good brandy.

  41. Have syrup thick and seal hot.

  42. Cauliflower Pickles

  43. 3 heads cauliflower 2 quarts cucumbers cut in cubes 1 quart onions cut fine 1 pint green peppers cut fine

  44. Mustard Sauce

  45. 1 quart vinegar (if white wine vinegar use 1 pint water and 1 pint vinegar as it is too strong) 6 tablespoons mustard (Coleman's) 1 teaspoon tumeric 1 cup (small) flour 2 cups sugar 3 tablespoons salt

  46. Boil onions, peppers in the vinegar; then add the cucumber. After it has boiled a few minutes add the cauliflower and then the mustard sauce. Boil together a few minutes; bottle and seal hot.

  47. The cauliflower must be boiled alone before adding.

  48. This is very excellent.

  49. 30 large tomatoes 8 large onions 8 large red peppers 5 tablespoons salt 10 tablespoons sugar 9 cups vinegar

  50. Cut the tomatoes and onions and boil one hour with the sugar, vinegar and salt; at the end of an hour put it through a sieve; now return to the stove and add your red peppers, cut very fine, and cook one more hour. Have it about the consistency of thick cream and bottle hot. Very fine for cold meats, fish, etc.

  51. Chili Sauce

  52. 30 large red tomatoes 12 medium sized onions 4 red peppers 3 teaspoons salt 12 teaspoons brown sugar 10 cups cider vinegar

  53. Chop tomatoes by themselves, then add finely chopped onions and peppers. Lastly add sugar, salt and vinegar mixing well. Boil 2 hours and can.

  54. 1 peck medium sized pickles 1 gallon cider vinegar 1 cup sugar 1 cup mustard 1 cup salt

  55. Wash pickles well and pack in stone crock. Dissolve mustard in some of the vinegar and mix all together and pour over pickles cold. Put on a weight--ready to use in three days.

  56. Tomato Pickle

  57. 2 gallon crocks of sliced green tomatoes sprinkled with salt. 4 small sliced onions mixed and let stand 2 quarts cider vinegar, heated and added 5 cents' worth mixed spices 2 lbs. brown sugar, and boil.

  58. Makes 3 quarts of pickles Corn Salad

  59. 2 doz. ears of corn; boil twenty minutes on cob. Cut off cob; chop one head cabbage; 3 green peppers, and 1 red pepper. Mix together. Put in kettle with four pints vinegar; 3 tablespoons salt, 2 tablespoons ground mustard; 4 cups sugar; 2 teaspoons celery seed. Cook 20 minutes.

  60. Tomato Catsup (very fine)

  61. To 1/2 bushel skinned Tomatoes, add 1 quart good vinegar 1 pound salt 1 pound black pepper (whole) 1 ounce African Cayenne pepper 1/4 pound allspice (whole) 1 ounce cloves 3 small boxes mustard (use less if you do not wish it very hot) 4 cloves of garlic 6 onions (large) 1 pound brown sugar 1 pint peach leaves

  62. Boil this mass for 3 hours, stirring constantly to keep from burning. When cool, strain through a sieve and bottle for use. Vegetable coloring may be used if you wish it to remain a bright red. (A family recipe handed down for generations and very good, indeed).

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.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Cinnamon + raisintop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Sugar + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Cinnamon + walnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Clove + raisintop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,022 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

Sugar and cinnamon share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,777 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vinegar, sugar, clove, cinnamon, raisin, butter, walnut):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Mustardbetter flavor fit
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vinegar, sugar, clove, cinnamon, raisin, butter, walnut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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