Why it works: Sugar and gin work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 344 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Green Gooseberry Wine
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Bruise the gooseberries well.
Add cold water and let stand for 24 hours.
Drain the gooseberries through a sieve.
Make the wine
Add 3.5 pounds of sugar for every gallon of liquor.
Put the mixture into a cask with a bottle of gin.
Age and bottle
Let it stand for 6 months, then bottle it.
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.
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Sugar + gintop 19% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together344 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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What each ingredient does
- Unripe green gooseberries
- Provide the main fruit flavour and natural acidity of the wine.
- Lump sugar
- Supplies sugar that yeast ferments into alcohol, and adds sweetness.
- Gin
- Adds alcohol, which helps preserve the wine and raises its strength.
The step that matters
Add the sugar by the gallon of liquor. The sugar amount is set relative to the volume of liquor, so you must measure the liquor before adding sugar. The sugar-to-liquid ratio controls how much fermentation occurs and how sweet the finished wine will be.
“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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