Why it works: Pine and sugar work together. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 309 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓
To Preserve Strawberries Whole
Ingredients
Directions
Clean the strawberries by removing the stalks and place them in a preserving pan.
Boil clarified sugar until it snaps, then pour enough over the strawberries to cover them.
Boil the strawberries for several minutes, then let them stand until the next day.
Drain the strawberries from the syrup.
Boil the syrup, adding enough clarified sugar to cover the strawberries, until it blows.
Add the strawberries back to the syrup and boil for five minutes.
Let the mixture cool, then transfer the strawberries to jars.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Pine + sugartop 30% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together309 recipes
Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
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