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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: Crab and cider work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and 12 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-phenylethanol, which smells honey, floral. The science ↓

The recipe

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Crab + cidertop 23% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-phenylethanol (honey, floral).

  2. Apple + cidertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,042 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Apple + raisintop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,920 recipes

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

  4. Cider + raisintop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together557 recipes

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

  5. Crab + raisintop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together29 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.

Flavor stand-ins for the raisin

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

  1. Pearbetter flavor fit
  2. Grapebetter flavor fit
  3. Plumbetter flavor fit
  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. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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