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Strawberry Vinegar, of Delicious Flavour

A vinegar infused with ripe strawberries, repeatedly steeped to intensify flavor.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,776 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Strawberry Vinegar, of Delicious Flavour

Ingredients

Directions

Infuse

  1. Remove the stalks from the strawberries and place them in a large glass jar or wide-necked bottle.

  2. Pour 1½ cups of fine pale white wine vinegar over the strawberries.

  3. Cover the jar with thick paper and let it sit for 3 to 4 days.

Strain and renew

  1. Afterward, pour off the vinegar and strain it through a jelly bag or cloth to remove the strawberries.

  2. Replace the strawberries with an equal weight of fresh strawberries and pour the vinegar over them.

  3. Repeat this process after 3 days, using slightly fewer strawberries each time until the flavor of the strawberries overpowers the vinegar.

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. White wine + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,776 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

Ripe strawberries
Supply the fruit flavor and aroma that steep into the vinegar.
White wine vinegar
Acts as the solvent that extracts flavor from the fruit and provides acidity.

The step that matters

Repeating the strawberry replacement. Fresh strawberries must be dry and free of excess juice, since moisture or spoilage can dilute the flavor or ferment the vinegar. Each renewal adds more fruit flavor, so the vinegar should be tasted before the next round.

“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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