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Italian Herb Sauce

A sauce made with chopped thyme and sherry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and sherry work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 702 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Italian Herb Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add chopped thyme to the mixture.

  2. Stir in a small glass of sherry.

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. Thyme + sherrytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together702 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Thyme
Adds an earthy, aromatic herb flavor that lifts the sauce.
Sherry
Adds acidity and a mellow, fruity depth to the sauce.

“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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