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Waters, Iced Fruit

A chilled strawberry water made by boiling strawberries in weak syrup and straining the liquid.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and sugar match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Waters, Iced Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick the strawberries carefully and place them in a pot with the weak syrup.

  2. Bruise the strawberries in the syrup and bring to a boil.

Strain and chill

  1. Strain the mixture through a jelly bag without applying pressure to avoid thickening.

  2. Chill the strained water and keep it in a cool place until ready to serve.

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. Syrup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the main flavour and colour, and release juice into the syrup when bruised.
Sugar
Sweetens the syrup and balances the tartness of the strawberries.

The step that matters

Strain without pressing the jelly bag. Squeezing the bag forces through pulp and fine solids, which clouds the liquid and can thicken it, so the strained water stays clear and thin.

“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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