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Siberian Crab Apple Wwe

A cider-based wine made with crab apples and raisins, aged for weeks.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and cider are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,238 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Siberian Crab Apple Wwe

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare crab apple cider as previously described.

  2. Wait 4 to 6 weeks.

  3. Soak corks in warm water.

  4. Clean bottles with shot and warm water.

Bottle and store

  1. Place one large raisin in each bottle.

  2. Fill each bottle with cider.

  3. Pound corks in with a wooden mallet.

  4. Tie corks with twine.

  5. Store bottles on their side in a cool place.

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. Apple + cidertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,238 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Apple + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Crab + raisintop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29 recipes

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

  4. Cider + raisintop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together588 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  5. Crab + appletop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together343 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

Crab apple cider
Fermented base that becomes the wine once bottled and aged.
Large raisins
Add natural sugars and yeast-carrying residue that can support further fermination in the bottle.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (crab, apple, cider):

  1. Pearfits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Quincefits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against crab, apple, cider. 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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