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Black Currant Vinegar

A vinegar made by boiling black currants with white vinegar, optionally flavored with whisky or brandy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Black currant and whisky work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Black Currant Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine black currants and white vinegar in a large container.

  2. Boil the mixture for 10 to 15 minutes to create a syrup.

  3. If desired, add whisky or brandy to the mixture.

  4. Bottle the vinegar and seal it.

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. Black currant + whiskytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Vinegar + whiskytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together59 recipes

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

  3. Black currant + vinegartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Black currants
Provide the main fruit flavour and colour, and their sugars help form a syrup when boiled.
White vinegar
Acts as the acidic base that extracts and preserves the fruit flavour.

Swap the black currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vinegar, whisky):

  1. Applefits better
  2. Pineapplefits better
  3. Currantfits better
  4. Black currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vinegar, whisky. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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