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Tonic Wine Tincture

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cherry and capsicum match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 667 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Tonic Wine Tincture

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pulverize all the ingredients.

  2. Combine the pulverized ingredients with the port wine in a container.

  3. Let the mixture stand for a week, shaking occasionally.

  4. Take a wine glass every 2 or 3 hours during the day until symptoms improve, then reduce to 2 or 3 times per day until finished.

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. Cherry + capsicumtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together667 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Cherry + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together551 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Cinnamon + capsicumtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,684 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

  4. Capsicum + port winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together923 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Cherry + port winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

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

Swap the cinnamon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cherry, capsicum, port wine):

  1. Clovefits better
  2. Basilfits about as well
  3. Pepperfits about as well
  4. Cinnamonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cherry, capsicum, port wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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