Why it works: Hops and molasses work together. They rank in the top 41% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5 recipes. The science ↓
Hop Beer
Ingredients
Directions
Make the brew
Boil the hops in 2½ gallons of water for 1 hour.
Strain the mixture.
Add 1 pint of molasses.
When the mixture is warm, add the cake of yeast.
Let it stand overnight.
Bottle
Skim off the yeast carefully.
Pour the liquid into bottles.
Add 1 tablespoon of wintergreen before sealing the bottles.
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.
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Hops + molassestop 41% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together5 recipes
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Hops
- Provide the bitter, aromatic flavour that characterises the beer.
- Molasses
- Supplies sugar that feeds the yeast and adds sweetness and colour.
- Yeast
- Ferments the sugars into carbonation and alcohol during standing.
The step that matters
Skim off the yeast carefully. Disturbing the settled yeast layer can cloud the liquid and carry sediment into the bottles, so it should be lifted off gently before bottling.
“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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