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To Preserve Cherries with Stalks and Leaves

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Vinegar and syrup work together. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 385 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

To Preserve Cherries with Stalks and Leaves

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dip the stalks and leaves in boiling hot vinegar, then place them in a sieve to dry.

  2. Prepare some syrup and scald the cherries, stalks, and leaves in it.

  3. Remove them and let them cool.

  4. Boil the syrup to a candy height, then dip the cherries, stalks, and leaves in it.

  5. Use a spoon with holes to lift them out separately and lay them on sieves to dry.

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. Vinegar + syruptop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together385 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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