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Syrup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a covered dish, stew the sliced onions and garlic in sweet oil to obtain the juices.

  2. Strain the mixture and add honey, paregoric, and spirits of camphor.

  3. Bottle and cork tightly for use.

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Spirit + camphortop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together207 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Honey + spirittop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (sweet).

  4. Garlic + honeytop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,669 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Onion + honeytop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetal (cream, earthy).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, honey, spirit, camphor):

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Mustardfits about as well
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Broccolifits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, honey, spirit, camphor. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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