Why it works: Beer and honey work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity. The science ↓
Ale or Beeb, to Recover When Flat
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Take 5 gallons of flat ale or beer from the hogshead.
Boil the ale or beer with 5 pounds of honey.
Clarify and cool
Skim the liquor well.
Allow the mixture to cool.
Store
Put the cooled mixture back into the hogshead and seal it tightly.
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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Beer + honeytop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together81 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Flat ale or beer
- Forms the liquid base that the honey is boiled into.
- Honey
- Adds sweetness and body to the liquid.
The step that matters
Skim the liquor well. Boiling brings foam and impurities to the surface. Removing them keeps the liquid clearer and less likely to spoil.
“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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