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Spearmint Vinegar

A vinegar infused with spearmint, peppermint, or celery seed, used as a condiment for meats, soups, and roasts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Spearmint and vinegar work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Spearmint Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

Infuse

  1. Fill a wide-mouthed bottle loosely with clean, fresh spearmint, peppermint, or celery seed.

  2. Pour vinegar into the bottle until nearly full.

  3. Cork the bottle and let it sit for about 3 weeks.

Bottle and serve

  1. Pour the vinegar into another bottle and cork it well.

  2. Serve with cold meats, soup, or roasts.

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. Spearmint + vinegartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh spearmint
Supplies the aromatic oils that flavour the vinegar during steeping.
Vinegar
Acts as the acidic liquid that draws out and carries the herb's flavour.

The step that matters

Letting it sit for about 3 weeks. Flavour compounds move from the leaves into the vinegar slowly. Stopping early gives a weak, under-flavoured vinegar, so the full steeping time matters.

“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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