Why it works: Currant and peas work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓
To Preserve Green Gooseberries, Currants, or Green Peas
Ingredients
Directions
Gather the fruit in dry weather or dry them in the sun.
Cut them from the stalks with scissors, ensuring they are not wounded or mixed with spoiled ones.
Gently drop them into dry, wide-mouthed bottles.
Cork the bottles and seal the corks with rosin.
Make a trench in the garden at least 2-3 feet deep and bury the bottles cork-side down to protect from frost.
If winter frost is severe, cover the burial site with stable litter.
Alternatively, store the bottles in a cool cellar for better preservation.
For improved preservation, briefly plunge the corked bottles in hot water.
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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Currant + peastop 21% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together78 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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