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Chantausen Sauce

A sweet sauce made with syrup, cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves, and Chantausen wine, served warm over puddings or sweet dishes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Chantausen Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine syrup, cloves, cinnamon, and bay leaves in a saucepan.

  2. Add Chantausen wine and bring to a simmer.

  3. Stir well and cook until flavors meld.

  4. Serve warm over puddings or sweet entrees.

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. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Cinnamon + winetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,170 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Syrup + cinnamontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together990 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Clove + winetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: cis-isoeugenol (clove, spicy).

  5. Syrup + clovetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together481 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

Syrup
Provides the sweetness and the body of the sauce.
Chantausen wine
Adds acidity and depth of flavor as it simmers into the sauce.
Cloves
Contribute a warm, pungent aroma to the sauce.
Cinnamon
Contributes a warm, sweet aroma to the sauce.
Bay leaves
Add a subtle herbal aroma as they steep in the liquid.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (syrup, cinnamon, wine):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Clovethe original
  3. Cardamomfits about as well
  4. Gingerfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against syrup, cinnamon, wine. 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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