Name: Beer, to Prevent From Growing Flat
Ingredients: 18 gallons of beer; 1 pint of ground malt

Why it works: Beer and malt work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 55 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Beer, to Prevent From Growing Flat

Ingredients

18 gallons of beer
1 pint of ground malt

Directions

Prepare

Suspend the ground malt in a bag.
Add the bag to the cask of beer.
Close the bung tightly.

Serve

The beer will improve while being drawn for use.

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.

Beer + malttop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together55 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Beer: Is the main liquid being preserved and improved while stored in the cask.
Ground malt: Is suspended in the beer as the agent said to improve its keeping quality over time.

“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.