Why it works: Clove and gin work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 26 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓
Clove Extract
Ingredients
Directions
Pound the cloves.
Place the cloves in a half-pint bottle and fill the bottle with gin.
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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Clove + gintop 24% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together26 recipes
Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
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What each ingredient does
- Cloves
- Pounding breaks cell walls so the gin can draw out more of the clove's aromatic oils.
- Gin
- Alcohol acts as the solvent that dissolves aromatic compounds from the cloves into a flavoured liquid.
The step that matters
Pound the cloves. Cloves have tough outer tissue, and cracking it exposes more surface area to the gin. Pounding too finely can make the liquid cloudy and hard to strain, while coarse pieces extract slowly.
“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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