Why it works: Lime and cheese work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 355 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓
Without Sugar
Ingredients
Directions
Choose clean, dry wide-mouthed bottles.
Gather fruit during dry weather and fill the bottles the same day.
Shake the fruit down by knocking the bottle on the table.
Prepare corks or bungs by soaking them in boiling water to remove any smell.
Cork the bottles tightly and secure with wire or string.
Mix fresh slaked lime and soft cheese, spread on rags, and tie over the bottle mouths.
Place bottles in a boiler with cold water up to their mouths.
Cover with linen to prevent evaporation and heat the water to boiling.
Keep boiling for about an hour, then let the bottles sit in the water until cold.
Seal the bottle mouths with melted rosin or bottle wax.
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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Lime + cheesetop 25% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together355 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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