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Cider Apple-sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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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 ↓

Cider Apple-sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pare, quarter, and core the apples.

  2. Place them in a porcelain-lined pot.

  3. Pour enough sweet cider over the apples to cover them.

  4. Stew the apples until they become a pulp, adding more cider if needed.

  5. Add a little spice if desired for flavor.

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).

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