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Clover Bloom Vinegar

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Sugar and molasses are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,225 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Clover Bloom Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine brown sugar, molasses, and boiling water in a large tub.

  2. Let the mixture cool.

  3. Add hop yeast and stir well.

  4. Cover the tub with a folded sheet and let it stand for 14 days.

  5. Strain the mixture and store it in a clean container.

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. Sugar + molassestop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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