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Tamarind Drink

A chilled beverage made by steeping tamarinds in boiling water and adding jelly and ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Tamarind and currant work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 24 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Tamarind Drink

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour boiling water over tamarinds and let it stand until cold.

  2. Dissolve a teaspoon of jelly in a glass of water.

  3. Add ice to improve the drink.

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. Tamarind + curranttop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

What each ingredient does

Tamarinds
Provide the tart, sour flavour that gives the drink its character.
Currant jelly or other jelly
Adds sweetness to balance the tamarind's sourness.

“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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