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Blackberry Coro'ial

A spiced blackberry cordial made with blackberry juice, sugar, cloves, allspice, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Blackberry Coro'ial

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cordial

  1. In a large bowl, combine the blackberry juice and white sugar.

  2. Add the ground cloves, allspice, cinnamon, and nutmeg, then mix well until the sugar is fully dissolved.

Bottle

  1. Bottle the mixture and seal tightly.

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. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Clove + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Allspice + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Allspice + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

What each ingredient does

Blackberry juice
Provides the main liquid and fruity flavor base for the cordial.
White sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the blackberry juice.
Ground cloves
Adds a warm, pungent aroma and spiced flavor.
Cinnamon
Adds warm, sweet spice aroma that complements the blackberry flavor.

The step that matters

Mix until the sugar is fully dissolved. Sugar that stays undissolved settles at the bottom of the liquid, so sweetness becomes uneven from pour to pour and the spices may not blend evenly.

Swap the blackberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, clove, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Blackberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, clove, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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