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Tar Beer for Consumption

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and honey work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 346 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Tar Beer for Consumption

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine water, wheat bran, tar, and honey in a new stone vessel.

  2. Simmer over low heat for 3 hours.

  3. Allow to cool, then add brewer’s yeast.

  4. Let it stand for 36 hours.

  5. Store in a cool place.

  6. Take ⅓ cup before each meal.

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. Wheat + honeytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together346 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

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