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Bacon and Macaroni

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Sugar and rum are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,908 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Bacon and Macaroni

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil sugar and water together until reduced.

  2. Add jam and boil for 10 minutes.

  3. Strain the mixture and return it to the pot.

  4. Add rum and bring to a boil.

  5. Use the syrup as directed.

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 + rumtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,908 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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