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Syrup with Rum or Brandy

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and rum work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 367 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Syrup with Rum or Brandy

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare ½ pint of syrup.

  2. Add ⅓ cup of rum or brandy to the syrup.

  3. Mix well and use as a topping.

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. Syrup + rumtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together367 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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