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Peppermint Tablet

A hard candy made from sugar, water, and peppermint oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and peppermint are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,082 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Peppermint Tablet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Boil the sugar and water for 10 minutes.

  2. Remove from heat and add the oil of peppermint.

Set the tablet

  1. Stir or beat with a wooden spoon until the mixture is white and thick.

  2. Pour into a buttered dish and mark into squares immediately.

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. Sugar + pepperminttop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,082 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Granulated sugar
Provides sweetness and forms the body of the tablet as it cools and crystallises.
Oil of peppermint
Provides the peppermint aroma and flavour.

The step that matters

Pour immediately after beating. Once the cooked sugar syrup is beaten, it crystallises quickly and thickens, so it becomes hard to pour and mark. Pouring and scoring at once gives an even tablet with clean squares.

“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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