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Creamed Peppermint Wafers

A sweet peppermint wafer made by boiling sugar with water, adding peppermint extract, and dropping onto oiled paper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and peppermint are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,082 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Creamed Peppermint Wafers

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Boil sugar and hot water for five minutes.

  2. Remove from heat and add peppermint extract.

  3. Stir until almost thick.

Shape the wafers

  1. Drop mixture onto oiled paper in small or large drops as preferred.

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. Sugar + pepperminttop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,082 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Provides sweetness and forms the wafer's body as the boiled syrup cools and sets.
Hot water
Dissolves the sugar so it can be boiled into a syrup.
Peppermint extract
Provides the mint flavor and aroma.

The step that matters

Stir until almost thick. The syrup thickens and sets quickly as it cools. Stopping at almost thick lets you drop it onto the paper while it still flows, so the wafers keep their shape instead of hardening in the pan.

“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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