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Essence of Capsicum

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and spirit work together. They rank in the top 31% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 64 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Essence of Capsicum

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the chillies in a jar with the overproof spirit and distilled water.

  2. Cork the jar and steep for one month, shaking it every day for the first two weeks.

  3. After a month, strain and filter the mixture as needed, adding more spirit in proportion to what you have used.

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. Pepper + spirittop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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