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Red Wine Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Red wine and brandy work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 103 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Red Wine Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare like white wine sauce.

  2. Add a little more sugar.

  3. Stir in brandy if desired.

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. Red wine + brandytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Sugar + brandytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together11,939 recipes

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

  3. Red wine + sugartop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together864 recipes

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

Sugar and brandy barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 11,939 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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