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Cinnamon, Essence of

A tincture made by infusing oil of cinnamon in strong spirit.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and spirit work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 150 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Cinnamon, Essence of

Ingredients

Directions

Make the essence

  1. Combine the oil of cinnamon with the strong spirit in a bottle.

  2. Seal the bottle for storage.

Use

  1. Use 2 or 3 drops to flavor half a pint of sauce or liquid.

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 + spirittop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together150 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Oil of cinnamon
Provides the concentrated cinnamon aroma and flavor.
Strong spirit
Acts as a solvent that carries the cinnamon flavor compounds, so they blend into liquids.

“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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