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Blackberry Mush

A chilled blackberry mush made by thickening water with flour and salt, then adding blackberries and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Blackberry Mush

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mush

  1. In a saucepan, combine water, flour, and salt.

  2. Bring to a boil, stirring until thickened.

  3. Add blackberries and sugar, mixing well.

  4. Strain the mixture into a glass dish.

Chill and serve

  1. Chill in the refrigerator until very cold before serving.

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. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Thickens the liquid as its starch swells and gelatinizes when heated.
Blackberries
Provide the main fruit flavour, colour and body of the dish.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the blackberries.

The step that matters

Bring to a boil, stirring until thickened. Flour must be stirred constantly as it heats to prevent lumps, and it must reach a boil so its starch swells fully and thickens the mixture.

“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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